Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes
One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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This terrible tragedy has created the opportunity to fashion a determined global response to terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, wherever it exists and under whatever name. I assured President Bush of India's complete support in this.
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My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple.
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I am righteous and righteously indignant, the Tea Party is righteously indignant, and our goal is to not just save the country, but quite frankly, if America goes, so goes the world, so in our desire to save the country, we are trying to save the world.
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I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.
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One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.