277 Quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal

I’m more Baskin-Robbins style myself.

I’m a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, “What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence.”

By cool, I don’t mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

I think I find tactile things, you know. Just the feeling of blood itself is enough for me. If you, even if it’s not real blood. I mean that’s enough, like sometimes there are very simple things that are enough.

Often times it’s really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.

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

When somebody’s really good, they’re not just thinking about their job.

At Columbia there’s no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have.