These past couple of years have been about learning to not sabotage myself in a subtler way - for instance, even just… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more vulnerable I get. But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I like clothes. And I think it's OK to think about clothes just so long as you also think about other things.… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Describing someone as quirky is a way of erasing them. What does it even mean? In so many interviews over the years,… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
There are two ways to be cool: One is to be disinterested and make it seem like you must be doing something… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I don't feel that way now. I don't want to make movies for the 10 people who feel exactly the same way… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn't leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
People write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
After making 'Secretary,' it was a real shock to me to learn that some directors just aren't interested in what actors have to say.… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
When I was in grade school in L.A., I really loved Cyndi Lauper. I did everything I could to look like her. I had… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
The older I get, the more vulnerable I get. But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants to bulldoze… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
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… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
I get magnetically pulled towards a project because there's something in it that offers me the opportunity to explore the edge of my understanding… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
It's a hard life to have sex with eight to 10 men a night. That's hard physically, let alone emotionally. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't such a… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share
