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 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
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
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
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
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
I can't not have something attached to like what actually happens in real life. Like I can't do a romantic comedy without… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Annie and I had already had sex on film in Brokeback Mountain, so I wasnt too nervous. Theres something about the way… — Jake Gyllenhaal Brokeback mountain Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I thought [Brokeback Mountain] was going to be the best movie ever made. And everyone was going to… — Jake Gyllenhaal Being the best Copy Share Image
A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it's from another planet,… — Jake Gyllenhaal Aliens Copy Share Image
I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Heath almost broke my nose in a kissing scene. He grabs me and he slams me up against the wall and kisses… — Jake Gyllenhaal Health 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 remember Chris Cooper saying to me - I was doing October Sky with him - and he said, "You know, you're… — Jake Gyllenhaal Actors Copy Share Image
On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I get off on the interaction with people, and I love the chess of a movie and particularly - not only in… — Jake Gyllenhaal 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 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
![“When I was 19, I thought [Brokeback Mountain] was going to be the best movie ever made. And everyone was going to see it and it was just going to be incredible. And then nobody saw it and it didn't get bought at Sundance. And it was a really great experience. Humbling. And then it's since found…” quote by Jake Gyllenhaal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/jake-gyllenhaal-2014_being-the-best_when-i-was-19-i-thought-brokeback-mounta_1038963.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/quotes/i/814/jake-gyllenhaal-2014_brokeback-mountain_one-of-the-things-that-i-m-so-proud-of-a_2231298.jpg)
