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Maggie Gyllenhaal

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Actress

Maggie Gyllenhaal is a renowned actress with a career that spans over two decades in film and theater. Known for her versatile performances, she has garnered attention for her roles in critically acclaimed films such as 'The Good Girl' and 'Secretary'. Gyllenhaal has been praised for her ability to portray complex characters with depth and nuance.

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“I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.”

Men Feels Made Play Laughing Lovers Angry Astonishing

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.”

People Thinking Years Looks Sometimes Film Wealth Rooms Powerful Talking Roles Television Performances Sexy Revolutionary Powerful Women People Talking

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“A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.”

Feels Real Right Now Incredibles Complicated Actresses Fascinating Real Women

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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.”

Littles Chance Couple Deceiving Chances Are Hype Savvy I Trust You Conning Can I Trust You

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.”

Ifs Play Whole Morning Easier Evening Personal Life Rehearsing

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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.”

People Way Trying Challenges

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“Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age.”

Years Has Beens Moments Age Interesting Roles History Generations Years Ago Finished Older Women

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“Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.”

Political Honestly Implications

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“Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.”

Writing Mother Realizing Down And Being A Mother

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“Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.”

Order Actors Space Good Work

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“If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't such a great thing. Probably the only way to really play a hooker well is to believe you're doing something that's good. But at the same time, the movie can't have that point of view.”

Ifs Way Believe Wells Play Courses Views Perspective Point Of View Great Things

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“I don't think there are that many parts I could say unequivocally "I would not play that," but there's lots of parts I read and I think, "I don't really want to do that. I don't really think that's how women act."”

Thinking Want Play

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“Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that role and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct. My initial instinct does lead me in a direction that I can trust.”

Thinking Way Feels Humans Kind Doe I Can Sometimes Seems Roles Strange Instinct Scripts Aliens Behave Initials Sitcom Leading Me

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“Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.”

People Needs Kind Littles Easy Tiny All Kinds

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I didn't think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter's, I didn't even think about it. Then I finished nursing, and I was kind of like "Oh, huh, wow, my body's so different."”

Thinking Kind Different Body Daughter Finished My Daughter Wow Nursing

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.”

Wells Important Sometimes Important Things

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I don't feel that way now. I don't want to make movies for the 10 people who feel exactly the same way about the world that I do. I want to make movies that many, many people see, and I want to say something that I believe is important in a way that people who don't agree with me can hear. And that involves making different kinds of choices, but it's not like a compromise that I'm making. It's that something else interests me, something else is appealing to me.”

People World Way Want Feels Believe Kind Important Different Choices I Believe Interest Agree Compromise Different Kinds

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be one of five people. Hollywood makes many bad movies too, which I'm not interested in being a part of. But there are only a few good independent movies a year, and many, many bad ones. I want to be in good movies, and I want people to see them.”

People Want Years Order Five Hollywood Independent Mainstream Not Interested Good Movie Bad Movies

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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.”

Thinking Believe Important Hard Would Be Acting

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Humans Hard Human Beings Situation Complicated

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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.”

People Ifs Knows Bigs Would Be Miserable Big Movie

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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.”

Firsts Country Home

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“I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.”

Week Drug Prison Addict Drug Addict Recovering

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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.”

Care Rooms Week Take Care Steam

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“Someone who's 26, 27, has a very different relationship to sex than someone who's 30.”

Different Sex Different Relationships

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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.”

Real Home Kids Tests Dinner Coming Home

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.”

World Moving Roles

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“There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.”

Needs America Bits Right Now Provocative

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“I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.”

People Want Challenges Roles

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.”

People Important Political Involved Intellectual

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“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 to play them well.”

Thinking World Way Wells Play Order Force Grows Roles Questioning Provocative

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“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 anyone, but you are really invested are really focused.”

Ifs Way Trying Two Seems Interesting Like You Please Focused Two Ways Being Cool Disinterested

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I was thinking about how people were upset about the information that came out from Snowden about the NSA - many people were upset, including myself. But I was kind of surprised by how little we did about it - how little fighting we did.”

People Thinking Kind Littles Fighting Information Including Upset Nsa Snowden

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.”

Persons Seems Smart Come Up Screens Advertisements Smart Person

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“People write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on the way to school. I get a little bit inured to it in a way that I think most people probably aren't.”

People Thinking Way Writing Littles Kids School Bits Little Bit Newspapers

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“We have our phones right by our beds, right next to us in our most exposed, vulnerable moments. And yet the government could have been collecting information from our phones at any moment. I think that basically as humans, we feel that's a violation.”

Thinking Feels Humans Has Beens Moments Government Next Information Bed Phones Vulnerable Exposed Could Have Been Violation Collecting Collecting Information

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.”

Thinking Government Law Secrecy Transparent Anonymity

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.”

Should Looks Said Internet Daughter I've Learned My Daughter

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“It's a hard life to have sex with eight to 10 men a night. That's hard physically, let alone emotionally.”

Men Night Hard Life

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“Sometimes I'll read a script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct.”

Thinking Kind Sometimes Strange Instinct Aliens Behave Sitcom

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.”

Kind Easy All Kinds

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“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.”

Knows Needs Care Healing Taken Couple Take Care Heal Girlfriend Healed

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.”

Ifs Way Persons Hard Kids Mother Three Inspiring Judging Mom Daughter I've Learned Mothers Day Happy Mothers Day

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois way of thinking." And then you have a child and yes, everything changes. It affects the way we live, what we do, and where we go - everything. And I wouldn't have in any other way.”

People Thinking Way Believe Children Remember Life Is Motherhood Believe In Me Things Change Way Of Thinking Bourgeois

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Fun Loses Party Too Much Dresses Shoes Dry Invited Enticing

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“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.”

Way Years Believe Has Beens Care Past Couple Instance Honour Showers Sabotage

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.”

Feels Real Found Interesting Roles Shortage Women's Roles

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“Having an education is invaluable.”

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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.”

Feels Ability College Finished

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“I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.”

Trying Ideas Succeed

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

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Born: November 16, 1977
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 65

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