277 Quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal

I’m open to whatever people want to call me.

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.

Crazy people don’t sit around wondering if they’re nuts.

I wasn’t really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that’s the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.

As an actor, no matter what, you’re at the whim of so many other people all the time.

There are lines that just stick with me, like I mean I still can remember it’s like every line that I say from Nightcrawler, I mean it’s just always there.

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven’t.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I’m not interested in making films that no one remembers.

I think I’m not in this work to not look at life as it is. I’m not in it to say, “I want to wear a mask and escape,” you know. I want to know what’s happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.