Maggie Gyllenhaal

After making 'Secretary,' it was a real shock to me to learn that some directors just aren't interested in what actors have…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

When I was in grade school in L.A., I really loved Cyndi Lauper. I did everything I could to look like her.…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

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…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

The older I get, the more vulnerable I get. But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

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

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I get magnetically pulled towards a project because there's something in it that offers me the opportunity to explore the edge of…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

It's a hard life to have sex with eight to 10 men a night. That's hard physically, let alone emotionally.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

I am not crazy about my knees.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I don't think there are that many parts I could say unequivocally "I would not play that," but there's lots of parts…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I have a raging temper. I'll shout and scream, then it passes like a wicked storm.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

I think what happened to me was I was so lucky to have made 'Secretary' so young. It's unusual to be given…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal