Jake Gyllenhaal famous quotes

Every journey starts with fear.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Journey

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Beautiful #Trying #Speech

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Real #Evidence

I'm more Baskin-Robbins style myself.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Style

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 yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#People #Trying #Want

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Mirrors #Giving #Romance

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

#Thinking #Parent #Looks

Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Funny #Pigs #Dumb

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Sex #Kissing #Men

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Musical #Theatre #Classic

Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Belief #Good Times #Having A Good Time

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Perspective #Way #Different

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Dad #Childhood #Cooking

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Life Changing

Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Regret #Thinking #Mind

What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Letting Go #Men #Mind

I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Growing Up #School #Parent

Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Body #Care #Take Care

What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#World #Want #Made

As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Real #People #Want

I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Fooled #Pregnant

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 open to whatever people want to call me. I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Mean #Men #Thinking

You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Simple #Two #Categories

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Remember #Film #Truth Is

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#People

I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Optimism #Promise #One Day

I'm open to whatever people want to call me.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#People #Want #Call Me

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Harsh #Critics

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Relief #Looks #World

In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Play #Perfect #Three

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Dirty #Love Is #Calm

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Artist #Actors #Admire

The Jake Gyllenhaal workout planstarts with growing long, long hairgorgeous greasy locks and then washing every day.Wash, shampoo, then condition. Washing works the biceps and then the triceps by conditioning. And vigorously rubbing all of your body with soap really defines the abs and the pectoral muscles. And if you do squats while you're bathing - that's it!
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Workout #Long #Locks

Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Dad #Believe #Mean

When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Running #Father #School

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Father #Trying #Alive

Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Stars #Important #Lasts

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Want

It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Dog #Coffee #People

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Crazy #Nuts #People

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

#Thinking #Enough

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

#Men #Thinking #Guy

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Cowboy #America #Brokeback Mountain

I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Thinking #Who I Am #Ideas

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Exercise #Brain #Mind

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Spiritual #Trying #Persons

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

#Men #Thinking #Ideas

I love 'Training Day' - that's a great movie.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Training

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#People #Giving #Movie Love

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

#Men #Thinking #Important

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Thinking #Play #Attention

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Thinking #People #Support

In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#Regret #Fields

I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#People #Mentor #Opinion