Top 35 Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

I don’t think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

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.

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there’s strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

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.

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.

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.

‘Brokeback Mountain’ takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

I’m going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don’t want to spend my life wasting my time. If it’s a big movie, I want to do it. If it’s a small movie, I want to do it.

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

When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.

I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions – that’s how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I’ve come to terms with how screwed I am!

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they’re attracted to another guy.

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.

I did a lot of background and research on ‘End Of Watch,’ and I definitely used certain skills that I learned.

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.

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.

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

I don’t think I’m sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you’re playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you’re enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

It bothers me when people say, ‘Oh, you’re so down to earth – for an actor.’ Even when they don’t say ‘for an actor,’ I feel like that’s the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?

Working on a movie like ‘Prince of Persia’ was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.

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

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

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.

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

I’m open to whatever people want to call me.

I am inherently a little brother – that’s just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It’s the natural order of things.

Every man goes through a period of thinking they’re attracted to another guy.

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.

I’ve learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

I think it’s important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

I remember being in college knowing I didn’t want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.

The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don’t acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.

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.

I hope I’m a spiritual person. I’m trying to be a spiritual person.