Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes:- Jake Gyllenhaal ( born December 19, 1980) is an American actor. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner.
He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father’s films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998).
His breakthrough performances were as Homer Hickam in October Sky (1999) and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko (2001).
Inspirational Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes
“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
“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
“Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any color.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“I think it’s important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“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.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“The theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“We were talking about 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
Famous Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes & Sayings
“I think that more and more there’s a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“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
“Every man goes through a period of thinking they’re attracted to another guy.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“If you’re going to spend seven months of your life – for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life – doing something, I think you have to have something to say.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“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.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
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
Best Quotes from Jake Gyllenhaal movies and TV shows
“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
“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.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“I liken movies to playing the 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.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven’t.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“I think family is the most important thing in the world. I think your own family is the most complicated thing in the world, and I think it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.“-Jake Gyllenhaal
“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
“I can’t make a movie unless I believe in the themes behind it. I mean, that’s the first question I ask myself, always, is, ‘What is this movie about?“-Jake Gyllenhaal