Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal

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
Jake Gyllenhaal

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

Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal

Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.

Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal

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

Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal

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
Jake Gyllenhaal

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
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
Jake Gyllenhaal

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.

Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal

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.

Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm like, '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
Jake Gyllenhaal

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

Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal

Every journey starts with fear.

Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal

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
Jake Gyllenhaal

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

Jake Gyllenhaal
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
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
Jake Gyllenhaal

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

Jake Gyllenhaal
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
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
Jake Gyllenhaal

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.