My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister… — Jake Gyllenhaal Chef Copy Share Image
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all… — Jake Gyllenhaal America Copy Share Image
We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding… — Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges Copy Share Image
I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into… — Jake Gyllenhaal Class Copy Share Image
One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making… — Jake Gyllenhaal Cinema Copy Share Image
It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Barbarians Copy Share Image
I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Actors Copy Share Image
Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life… — Jake Gyllenhaal Actors Copy Share Image
You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels… — Jake Gyllenhaal Audience Copy Share Image
One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10… — Jake Gyllenhaal Brokeback mountain Copy Share Image
I try and find and access the parts of myself that still blindly believe and have faith in a lot of things.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Access Copy Share Image
I don't want to be lofty when I say this, but I don't know what a success is any more. I know… — Jake Gyllenhaal Business Copy Share Image
At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes… — Jake Gyllenhaal Abstract Copy Share Image
I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever… — Jake Gyllenhaal Change the world Copy Share Image
I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They… — Jake Gyllenhaal Comfort Copy Share Image
The last name is pronounced Jill-en-hall. It's spelled with two l's, two a's. We have a song in my family; G-Y-Double L… — Jake Gyllenhaal Family Copy Share Image
I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
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… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion. — Jake Gyllenhaal Cinema Copy Share Image
I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a… — Jake Gyllenhaal Family Copy Share Image
It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for… — Jake Gyllenhaal Actor Copy Share Image
There are standards. I like to be prepared, I guess I should say - that type of pressure of, "All right, now… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before… — Jake Gyllenhaal Creativity Copy Share Image
When you have the opportunity to choose projects, inevitably you start being moved towards the things that you're moved by, right? And… — Jake Gyllenhaal Change Copy Share Image
I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is… — Jake Gyllenhaal Acting Copy Share Image
We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are… — Jake Gyllenhaal Belief Copy Share Image
Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's… — Jake Gyllenhaal Friendship Copy Share Image
When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
For a month I did a crazy circuit: running five miles, swimming for 20 minutes, riding a bike for 35 miles, and… — Jake Gyllenhaal Boot camp Copy Share Image
What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't… — Jake Gyllenhaal Actor Copy Share Image
I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in… — Jake Gyllenhaal Acting Copy Share Image
I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions - that's how you tap into other characters. Besides,… — Jake Gyllenhaal Actor Copy Share Image
Masculinity is, nowadays and generationally, confusing. What is honor, what is protection, what is being a man? It's evolving. But I believe… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Jake Gyllenhaal](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/075/jake-gyllenhaal-2014_barbarians_it-s-daunting-trying-to-do-any-service-a_1430124.jpg)
![“One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement.” quote by Jake Gyllenhaal](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/814/jake-gyllenhaal-2014_brokeback-mountain_one-of-the-things-that-i-m-so-proud-of-a_2231298.jpg)
