Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

Having an education is invaluable.

I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.

Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

I have a couple of girlfriends who are like healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.

I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.

I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.

I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.

I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.

I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn't believe in.

I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.

I'm pretty good at indulging myself. I'm about to go travel for a week. I like to get massaged, go into steam rooms. I take care of myself.

I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.

Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.