277 Quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal

I thought I was a long shot, but this was a role I was going to fight for.

I always say about that movie [ Brokeback mountain], which I think maybe over time is more understood, is that this is about two people desperately looking for love. To be loved. And who were probably capable of it. And they just found it with someone of the same sex.that does not dismiss the fact that it is about, really, primarily, the first kind of very profound gay love story. Hopefully it can create an equality of an idea: that is, it's possible that you can find love anywhere.

That was so scary, the last scene Heath and I shot together. We finally get to say to each other what we want to say, and I was really nervous because there were so many emotions, and both men have been holding so much back. Luckily, the dialogue is so great that it worked out.

My character's the one that kind of initiates these sexual encounters, which to me was, like, totally foreign.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

Usually, the action's moving so fast, you don't get the opportunity to see the psychology, really,

It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.

There have been times when I've been working with women and they just said, 'Hey, I've faked it before. I can fake it again.'

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.