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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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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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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I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
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One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.
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I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.
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When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.
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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.
