277 Quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don’t find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it’s just plain dirty.

There’s always an intellectual side to the films Ang Lee’s doing and to the characters, and there’s such a deep knowledge when you’ve worked with the actors that he’s worked with, on stage in particular, but also in film.

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

Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it’s not because I’m so different from you either. It’s because I’m the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you’re powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can’t make mistakes.

I’m superstitious a little bit.

Hardest emotion? They’re all pretty damn hard; I don’t know really if there’s one specifically, but I do think, I don’t know what’s happening or what I’m feeling when I’m actually listening.

I was working with Michael Shannon and I was like, “Oh man I’m having trouble with this scene.” And he’s like, “Well, then just open it up.” I was like, “But, the mark?” And I was like, what’s wrong with me? And he was like, “Dude, what’s wrong with you?”