Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?

Jake Gyllenhaal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

Joe Morton

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I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

Jillian Michaels

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I was my thinnest when doing 35 fashion shows a week in different countries because I didn't have time to eat. I've never bought the idea that models in fashion magazines cause readers to have anorexia and bulimia. And you can't be a model if you've got those conditions anyway, because you'll get acne and hair all over your body.

Jerry Hall

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The challenge with Donald Trump is that he'll deny things he said the day before or even in the same interview. And then sometimes when you try and talk about a fact that he misstated or something that he said out loud that he now disagrees with himself on, it's very frustrating.

John Dickerson

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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

John Milton

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Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

John Polkinghorne

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Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride.

Amanda Foreman

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I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster would be good in this part, and so on. With 'L.A. Confidential,' it was like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if Dean Martin played the Kevin Spacey part?'

Brian Helgeland

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I don't like to use the words 'real women,' honestly. I like to use the word 'woman.' And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.

Ashley Graham

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When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

Alicia Keys

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There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Willie Stargell

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Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

Phil McGraw

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