Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 19, 1980

Topics

LifeCharacterMyselfPerspective

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

Andie MacDowell

MeYouLookWantGrandmotherOld

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Robert H. Schuller

OutGetGutsTakesRuts

Sam Peckinpah's movies probably say more about him than anybody's body of work says about that person. There are running themes in his films that I find eminently fascinating, disturbing, exhausting, and exhilarating.

Rod Lurie

WorkBodyFindPersonSayMovies

The government ought to be in the business of delivering health, education, housing, and basic services to people without a lot of game playing. There ought to be comprehensive childcare, a comprehensive approach to housing, a sane, rational way to finance education. But I also strongly believe in the notion of fundamental individual freedom.

Ron Dellums

EducationBusinessFreedomHealth

The more you play, the more you feel part of the squad, and then, in turn, you end up playing better. I think it's a psychological gap as well - if you don't think you're a first-team player, then you won't be.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

ThinkEndBetterFeelYouPlay

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Joseph Butler

BodyOfficeSameBeingChristMany

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Dolores Huerta

CommunityHistoryYourselfPeople

I act much younger than I am.

Chrissy Teigen

I AmActThanYoungerMuchAm

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

Anthony Anderson

WorkYouI CanUnderstandNeverAct

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

Arthur Smith

TravelBookBetterWalkingMy Own

There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm that could give writers a first draft or a starter kit, so it could enable people to be more prolific in their writing.

Philip M. Parker

PeopleWritingYouPageWantFirst

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

Perry Como

LifeTimeRegretWishNowKids

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