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I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?

From Jake Gyllenhaal

The last name is pronounced Jill-en-hall. It's spelled with two l's, two a's. We have a song in my family; G-Y-Double L - EN - HAAL spells Gyllenhaal. It's a Swedish name. It's a family heirloom set to music.

From Jake Gyllenhaal

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

From Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

From Jake Gyllenhaal

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

From Jake Gyllenhaal

I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.

From Jake Gyllenhaal

Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.

From Jake Gyllenhaal

If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say.

From Jake Gyllenhaal

It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.

From Jake Gyllenhaal

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

From Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal

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