Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

I don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of; I think I've behaved in ways I'm not.

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.

I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

I love 'Training Day' - that's a great movie.

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.

I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.

Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard; I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening or what I'm feeling when I'm actually listening.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

Most of the things that I learn are from the women in my life.

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

When you have the opportunity to choose projects, inevitably you start being moved towards the things that you're moved by, right? And that changes over time, as we change, right?

Other people's belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.

When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.

To me I just, I'm a geek when it comes to cinematographers . And when it comes to Robert and when it comes to someone like Roger Deakins who shot Prisoners and he shot Jarhead.

Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

I don't have a "I want to play this or that," I just don't have that. I've never been like that.

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.

As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.