Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes
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I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.
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On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.
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I really hated charm school. I guess I'm just a little bit bad.
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I felt out of place and not listened to.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
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There's something so provocative about a pregnant woman. I don't mean just sexually. I feel like, when you see one, you kind of want to know what she looks like underneath—you want to take her clothes off.
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Having an education is invaluable.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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These past couple of years have been about learning to not sabotage myself in a subtler way - for instance, even just by putting moisturiser on when I get out of the shower. Learning to honour myself and believing that I'm worth taking care of.
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I want the power that comes with celebrity because I have good intentions. I feel as if I could do something good with that power. But it would be doing everyone a disservice to say I feel good about myself all the time and that I never think my hair looks awful. If you think you've got bad hair, try going on a month-long press tour with it.
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I'm excited to be a part of this important project. Will and John are genuine heroes and I think their wives, Allison and Donna, are heroes, too. I feel privileged to be part of a project that will remember how we all came together on that day.
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I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.
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You're invited to tons of parties, and you'll wear these shoes and that dress, and it can be enticing, but I think it also sucks you dry. If you do it a little, sure, it's fun, but too much and you start to lose your footing.
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I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way and I am also looking for roles that I think will force me to grow or learn something about myself or the world in order ...
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To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.
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I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.
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Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn't believe in.
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Someone asked me why I didn't do teen movies or action movies, but I'm not interested in them.
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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
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I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.
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I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.
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Things like the spanking scene with James Spader, I felt so protected and I was really trusting of James. So I felt excited and curious the way my character felt.
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He's making a memorial service, honoring what happened. That is how it feels. ... It's all these feelings it's numbness, it's anger, it's fear, it's pain, it's so many things. And you go through it, as Oliver demands that I do.
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I bought a lot of beautiful clothes in Paris but it was right before my daughter started eating solids. I didn't realise how messy that would be. I learned to lay off the cream silk blouses for a while. I think it's fine to think about clothes. They can be a fun little sliver of your life. I don't think it's fine to think about them all the time, though.
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I do see things sometimes that are good, but they don't feel like a challenge to me personally. Like, in my own life and so often I think the things that excite me are things that feel a little bit beyond my grasp.
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I'm pretty good at indulging myself. I'm about to go travel for a week. I like to get massaged, go into steam rooms. I take care of myself.
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There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.
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I think it's important to see. It's a real violation, and it forces people to get emotionally involved in something that's intellectual and political.
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Donnie Darko was sort of like a fluke. It was like, Oh sure, yeah, I'll play your older sister. I mean I am your older sister.
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I don't think it is the narrative necessarily that is the most important thing I think it is the human interaction that is the most important thing.
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I just want to support these films and be a part of them in any way because they are so provocative and interesting.
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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I didn't act the way little kids do, I threw my whole self into it.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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To be honest it takes a while to get ready and a lot of thought. But the amount of scrutiny is sometimes unbearable.
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Even in elementary school, I took it really seriously. I was always doing plays.
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I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.
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There are two ways to be cool: One is to be disinterested and make it seem like you must be doing something much more interesting than everybody else if you are this disinterested. The other is to be extremely interested. You are not trying to please anyo...
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.
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It's my responsibility to see what we can move and change about these old-school feminist mantras.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who are like, healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.
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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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When I started making movies, I didn't care if anybody saw them. And now I realize I don't want to make movies for the ten people that feel the same way about the world that I do! I want to make movies that people see.
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Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
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With everything I work on, I want to be put in a position that I have to be brave to do the project.
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