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“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.”

Quote by Jake Gyllenhaal

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Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980) is an acclaimed American actor known for his versatile performances in both independent films and major blockbusters. Born into a film family in Los Angeles, with director father Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter mother Naomi Foner, his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal is also a renowned actress. Gyllenhaal gained international recognition for his role in "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His notable works include "Source Code," "Nightcrawler," and "Spider-Man: Far From Home." Known for his dedication to craft and ability to transform for roles, he is considered one of the most talented actors of his generation. more

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“It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me.”

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“Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.”

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“Heath [Ledger] would walk up to a horse and could like silence the horse. Just literally he'd be like, 'Shh. Shh.' And then he'd get on the horse. I'd be like, 'I'm going to get on you.' They'd be like, 'F - off!' I didn't really have that style.”

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“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.”

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“I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.”

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“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.”

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“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 going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence."”

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“As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved.”

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