Top 100 Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

2. “Every journey starts with fear.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

3. “I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

4. “Don’t listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it’s what you want to do and it’s within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

5. “I promise that, one day, everything’s going to be better for you.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

6. “Don’t listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

7. “I’m more Baskin-Robbins style myself.”

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8. “I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.”

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9. “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.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

10. “By cool, I don’t mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

11. “Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it’s not because I’m so different from you either. It’s because I’m the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

12. “In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.”

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13. “I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

14. “You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.”

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15. “Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it’s just plain dirty.”

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16. “Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

17. “When somebody’s really good, they’re not just thinking about their job.”

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18. “Often times it’s really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.”

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19. “I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don’t find them odd at all. They give me comfort.”

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20. “I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I’ve learned early on.”

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21. “To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

22. “On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I joke, but it has. I mean, I don’t consider myself a card-carrying Buddhist, you know. But I do believe deeply in the ideas, and I think anytime you have interest in anything, it somehow humbles you.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

23. “I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

24. “I’m superstitious a little bit.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

25. “I’ve become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don’t I just learn another language for a movie?”

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26. “Every man goes through a period of thinking they’re attracted to another guy.”

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27. “Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that’s what’s really important.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

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28. “You know, it’s flattering when there’s a rumor that says I’m bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I’m open to whatever people want to call me. I’ve never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don’t think I would be afraid of it if it happened.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

29. “Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.”

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30. “I hope I’m a spiritual person. I’m trying to be a spiritual person.”

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31. “I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.”

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32. “I love ‘Training Day’ – that’s a great movie.”

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33. “Other people’s belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

34. “I’m open to whatever people want to call me.”

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35. “I don’t think I’ve made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of; I think I’ve behaved in ways I’m not.”

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36. “I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it’s one individual thing.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

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37. “I love artists. I love watching other people work.”

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38. “Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.”

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39. “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.”

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

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41. “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.”

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42. “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.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

43. “Uta Hagen would say, there’s the representational actor and the presentational actor.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

44. “Being a star doesn’t last. That’s not what life should be about. It’s a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

45. “My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

46. “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.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

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

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48. “I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

49. “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.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

50. “There are standards. I like to be prepared, I guess I should say – that type of pressure of, “All right, now you go with abandon,” you know. Now when you’re in it, you let go of all the things – that’s what happens when you’re onstage.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal