277 Quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal

As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

It was really the most beautiful love story I had ever read, and I couldn't not do it.

I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where there's a definitive sense of something. I go one way and then it opens up into a million different ideas, and somehow, when you look at the art, Buddhist art, or particularly Tibetan art, you know, it's a similar thing. All of a sudden there are a million lotus leaves and you're following one to the next and to another, and I related to that, and it felt simple and easy to me. And it made me feel smart.

It was at a point where I realized that like I had told Sam before we started 'I'll throw up in the sand for you. I'm gonna do anything I can for you,' but I never thought I would chip off my tooth for him. That's permanent,

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

I don't have a "I want to play this or that," I just don't have that. I've never been like that.

It's a wonderful love story -- a freaky, awesome ride with crazy characters,

They're the darkest people I know, comedians.