277 Quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal

I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the set, and how much respect he has for every aspect of the film, and every aspect of the frame - that's the type of actor I am now; it's not the type of actor I was then. But without understanding his process, and then coming to learn it later on, I would never be the actor I am now.

I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.

Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.