Occupation: Actor Birth: December 19, 1980
I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose ….
I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant..
I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are ….
Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - wh….
When you have the opportunity to choose projects, inevitably you start being moved towards the things that you're moved by, right? And that changes o….
The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having….
I remember Chris Cooper saying to me - I was doing October Sky with him - and he said, "You know, you're just yelling at me." He's like, "You're just….
Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and ha….
I can't not have something attached to like what actually happens in real life. Like I can't do a romantic comedy without there being something where….
I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what tha….
I think also what's interesting is that Maggie [Gyllenhaal] knows how much the choices that I make reflect what's going on in my life. Admittedly, pr….
The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the set, and how much respect he ha….
Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard; I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening or what….
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 startin….
I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where there's a definitive sense of something. ….
I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you..
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.
The Jake Gyllenhaal workout planstarts with growing long, long hairgorgeous greasy locks and then washing every day.Wash, shampoo, then condition. Wa….
You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple..
I'm more Baskin-Robbins style myself..
When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and tha….