Thinking Quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

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I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then…

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I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were…

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Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever…

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I think that I have done work where I feel like I've challenged myself, and then what's even more confusing is I've…

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I think, when someone say, "When did you feel like an actor?" it's those moments when I feel like, "I'm an actor,…

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I think I find tactile things, you know. Just the feeling of blood itself is enough for me. If you, even if…

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When I look at that now, all I think about is what a master [David Fincher] I was working with, and all…

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There's no shame in somebody who doesn't necessarily do that job knowing a little bit more in that instance than you might…

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You know, it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm…

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I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching.…

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But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can…

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As a producer, it starts when I talk about privacy and silence. It starts before anybody believes in it. And I think…

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Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking,…

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I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take…

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Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I…

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Being the youngest, I constantly have that insecurity of being the youngest, which ultimately is probably my drive. in a lot of…

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I also think within the scene, a specific scene - if I were to play a part that I played 10 years…

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I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't think I had any idea at the time how to work with someone as masterful as he is. And I…

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I remember watching Meryl Streep in, The River Wild. There's this scene where she's has a gun pointed at her, it's absurd…

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

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Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

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I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from…

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I think also what's interesting is that Maggie [Gyllenhaal] knows how much the choices that I make reflect what's going on in…

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I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

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

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a…

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We are all from different cultures. Heath's [Ledger] Australian, really. I'm from here. Ang's [Lee] from China. But I think Ang gets…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I…

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I think I'm generally - fear, fear is very still, so in terms of that kind of fear - there's so many…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I always say about that movie [ Brokeback mountain], which I think maybe over time is more understood, is that this is…

— Jake Gyllenhaal