Maggie Gyllenhaal famous quotes

I have a couple of girlfriends who are like, healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Girlfriend #Couple #Taken

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Thinking #Roles #Television

I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Sexy #Powerful #Thinking

Having an education is invaluable.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#History #Interesting #Age

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Real #Actresses #Complicated

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Independent #Class #Literature

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Girl #Long #Prison

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Ideas #Trying #Succeed

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Couple #Hype #Littles

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#College #Ability #Feels

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Morning #Play #Evening

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#People #Challenges #Trying

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Thinking #Important #World

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 is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Mom #Daughter #Kids

I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois way of thinking." And then you have a child and yes, everything changes. It affects the way we live, what we do, and where we go - everything. And I wouldn't have in any other way.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Children #Believe #Motherhood

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Mean #Feelings #Actresses

These past couple of years have been about learning to not sabotage myself in a subtler way - for instance, even just by putting moisturiser on when I get out of the shower. Learning to honour myself and believing that I'm worth taking care of.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Couple #Believe #Past

You're invited to tons of parties, and you'll wear these shoes and that dress, and it can be enticing, but I think it also sucks you dry. If you do it a little, sure, it's fun, but too much and you start to lose your footing.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Fun #Party #Thinking

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Sex #Communication #Thinking

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

#Real #Interesting #Roles

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made feel angry, and then it made me laugh.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Men #Play #Laughing

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Believe #Artist #Important

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Years #Directors #Actresses

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 are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Sex #Years #People

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 way or too far the other.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Play #People #Trying

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Inspire #Good Work

I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Sex #Thinking #Keys

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

#Kids #World #Want

There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Pregnancy #Knowing #Interesting

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