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Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

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.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Me Think Doing You Say

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

Jim Woodring

Say More Something Worthwhile Comics

I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

Andie MacDowell

Good Talent Speak Language Wish

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

Lorrie Moore

Women Character Woman Writing Look

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

Christopher Walken

Start You Acting Know Living Talk

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

Christopher Walken

Doing Know Lines Because Really

I try to keep my closet organized by color and category so that it's not only aesthetically pleasing but practical as well - it really makes getting ready so much easier.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

Color Ready Try Organized Keep Well

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

Pema Chodron

Heart Mind Ego Trying You Situation

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

Sean Penn

Confidence Growing Up Mission Growing

I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father and my stepfather and my mother all taught me, which was never depend on anyone else to do things for you, and work really hard on your own. At the same time, I benefited from the help of church and family and government my whole life.

Kyrsten Sinema

Life Work Family Father Mother Time

Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.

Linda Evans

Television Gone Spelling Further

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Khalil Gibran

Yourself You Possessions Little Give

I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.

Janelle Monae

Age Creating Know DNA Always Been