Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

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.

Every journey starts with fear.

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

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.

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

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

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.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

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.

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.

Masculinity is, nowadays and generationally, confusing. What is honor, what is protection, what is being a man? It's evolving. But I believe having an open heart - and a strong mind to protect that - is the idea.

I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.

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.

I'm open to whatever people want to call me.

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

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.

One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement.

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

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.

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.

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