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Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes
American
-
Actress
November 16, 1977
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Your
Feeling
Opinion
Stand
Artistic
Big Part
Entitled
Specifically
Able
Actress
Being
Big
Means
Part
Something
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Life
Morning
You
Evening
All Day
Maintain
Personal Life
Rehearsing
Because
Day
Doing
Easier
Get
Like
Much
Personal
Play
Whole
Working
Your
Having an education is invaluable.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Education
Having
Invaluable
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
People
Way
Challenge
Movies
Interact
Lately
About
Actually
Many
See
Something
Trying
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Myself
Me
Confidence
Feel
Analyze
Articulate
Finished
Gratified
More Than Anything
Text
Ability
About
Also
Anything
College
Gave
Having
How
I Feel
Learned
More
Than
I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Women
Feel
Real
Just
Shortage
Did
Found
I Feel
Interesting
Now
Roles
Them
I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Someone
Trying
Herself
Idea
Perform
Succeeding
Liked
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Me
Long
Time
Girl
Prison
Get
Got
Just
Long Time
Made
Movie
Out
Over
Played
Quickly
Shot
Took
Very
Where
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Religion
Literature
Independent
Major
Classes
English Literature
Studied
English
Really
Took
I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Funny
You
Sex
Think
Complicated
Complicated Things
Secretary
About
I Think
Key
Lot
Other
Talking
Things
I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Communication
People
Sex
Think
Fantasy
Version
I Think
Interested
Interesting
Most
Scene
Very
Way
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
World
Power
Think
Way
Effect
Also
Get
Help
I Can
I Think
Important
Made
Movies
Some
Want
Whatever
Works
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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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Myself
People
Go
Way
Between
Far
Figure
Line
One-Way
Other
Out
Play
Right
Sometimes
Still
Too
Trying
Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Women
People
Sex
Who
Connected
Somehow
Always
Everyone
Getting
Having
Interested
Interesting
Little
Made
Most
Movies
Seeing
Trouble
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Clothes
Always
Lipstick
Acting
Changing
Constantly
Either
Film
Off
Other
Putting
Quickly
Really
Then
Working
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Cool
Walk
Conversation
Difficult
Disagree
OK
Onto
Ten
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
About
Actress
Director
Everyone
Having
Really
Set
Years
Years Ago
Young
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Me
You
Woman
Know
Compelling
Pregnant
About
Get
Interesting
Knowing
Made
Maybe
Movie
Really
She
Something
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Beautiful
Sometimes
House
Sit
Chairs
Folding
La
NY
Around
Coming
Just
Those
Were
Working
Would
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
You
Trust
Who
More
Chances
Conned
Deceive
Invest
Savvy
Been
Couple
Going
Little
Now
Somebody
Times
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Work
You
Believe
Opinion
Any Circumstances
Circumstances
Equally
About
Any
Artist
Director
Doing
Important
Right
Your
You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Work
Good
You
Good Work
Choosing
Inspires
Because
Going
Something
Simple black-and-white thinking or action is always going to be problematic.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Simple
Thinking
Always
Action
Problematic
Going
I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Good
Think
Just
Brilliant
Empowering
Good Writer
Get
Involved
Writer
So many people are willing to sleepwalk through things and fall into the not human, not interesting choice. To make the really interesting choice, you have to fight.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
You
People
Fight
Fall
So Many People
Choice
Human
Interesting
Make
Many
Really
Things
Through
Willing
I'm not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human. I'm interested in showing what it actually looks like.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Wish
Like
Looks
Human
Not Interested
Showing
Actually
Interested
I get magnetically pulled towards a project because there's something in it that offers me the opportunity to explore the edge of my understanding about myself.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Myself
Me
Opportunity
Understanding
Edge
Explore
Offers
Pulled
About
Because
Get
Project
Something
Towards
I think it's worth putting energy into affirmative action in terms of having diversity in positions of power because the door was shut for so long.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Long
Power
Think
Energy
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Diversity
Door
Positions
Shut
Action
Because
Having
I Think
Putting
Terms
Worth
For a long time, I bought into the idea that if you are a woman who is a storyteller and a lover of movies, then the best way to express that is as an actress. Obviously, there are women my age who are directors who didn't buy into that idea, but I did - and now I've broken that down inside myself.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Best
Myself
Women
You
Best Way
Bought
Broken
Directors
Lover
Storyteller
Actress
Age
Buy
Did
Down
Express
Idea
Inside
Long
Long Time
Movies
Now
Obviously
Then
Time
Way
Who
Woman
There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Me
Time
Surprise
Things
Disappointing
About
Actress
Being
Hollywood
Really
I like clothes. And I think it's OK to think about clothes just so long as you also think about other things. I'm not interested in clothes to the point where they'll push other things out of my mind; I just see them as a way of expressing yourself, and a pleasure, really.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
You
Long
Yourself
Mind
Expressing
Not Interested
OK
Pleasure
Push
About
Also
Clothes
I Think
Interested
Just
Like
Other
Out
Point
Really
See
Them
Things
Think
Way
Where
I was always dressing up as a kid. I had a dress for all the Los Angeles bar and bat mitzvahs that I was going to when I was 13 which I was crazy for. It was green, dark, shimmery. Very 1980s. It was slightly off-the-shoulder, which I thought was very sophisticated.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Green
Dress
Crazy
Always
Angeles
Bar
Bat
Dressing
Los
Los Angeles
Slightly
Sophisticated
1980s
Dark
Going
Had
Kid
Thought
Up
Very
Which
When I was in grade school in L.A., I really loved Cyndi Lauper. I did everything I could to look like her. I had wild outfits and always wore different coloured socks. I wore loads of ribbons in my hair and let them fall in my eyes.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Eyes
Hair
Look
School
Coloured
Grade
Grade School
Loads
Outfits
Socks
Wild
Wore
Always
Could
Did
Different
Everything
Fall
Had
Her
Like
Loved
Really
Them
I happen to be in a line of work where I get given lots of clothes, and I definitely think it's fun, but I know that, ultimately, fashion is not that important. I use fashion, though, as a way of thinking about who I am.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Work
I Am
Thinking
Think
Ultimately
About
Am
Clothes
Definitely
Fashion
Fun
Get
Given
Happen
Important
Know
Line
Lots
Though
Use
Way
Where
Who
The older I get, the more vulnerable I get. But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants to bulldoze things, gets in my way.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Me
Way
Stubborn
More
Bulldoze
Vulnerable
Get
Gets
Older
Part
Things
Wants
I am not crazy about my knees.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Crazy
I Am
About
Knees
Am
As I get older, I find I cry much more often than I did.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
More
Cry
Find
Than
Did
Get
Much
Often
Older
I used to think that if I did my very best work, then everyone would love it, but I've realised that not everybody thinks the same things are good. It took me 30 years even to begin to see that.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Love
Best
Work
Good
Best Work
Realised
Same Things
Thinks
Begin
Did
Even
Everybody
Everyone
Me
Same
See
Then
Things
Think
Took
Used
Very
Would
Years
I think what happened to me was I was so lucky to have made 'Secretary' so young. It's unusual to be given an opportunity to express yourself as an actress that young and that thoroughly.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Me
Yourself
Opportunity
Think
Express Yourself
Secretary
Thoroughly
Unusual
Actress
Express
Given
Happened
I Think
Lucky
Made
Young
When you are in every scene of a movie - which I must say I really much prefer - you have more control over the film that you're making. Because the choices you make as an actor can't help but change what the movie is saying.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Change
You
Control
More
Choices
Prefer
Actor
Because
Every
Film
Help
Make
Making
Movie
Much
Must
Over
Really
Say
Saying
Scene
Which
College gave me validation: I gained a lot of confidence, just from once or twice saying something in class and the professor saying, 'Great idea.' That experience has certainly helped me say to a director, 'Actually, I think my idea is at least worth talking about.'
Maggie Gyllenhaal
After making 'Secretary,' it was a real shock to me to learn that some directors just aren't interested in what actors have to say. They just don't want to collaborate.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Me
Real
Want
Say
Collaborate
Directors
Secretary
Shock
Actor
After
Interested
Just
Learn
Making
Some
Yes, I want to do good work. But just because a movie is small, it doesn't make it better. In fact, there are a lot of really horrible independent movies made.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Work
Good
Better
Movies
Good Work
Horrible
Independent
Independent Movies
Just Because
Because
Fact
In Fact
Just
Lot
Made
Make
Movie
Really
Small
Want
Yes
Therapy was incredibly enlightening. I don't think it's only necessary if you're unwell - it's a useful tool for me to understand my own mind and how it works.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Me
You
Mind
Think
Enlightening
Therapy
Tool
Useful
Useful Tool
How
Incredibly
My Own
Necessary
Only
Own
Understand
Works
Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn't leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there's no ideal - a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Love
Motherhood
You
Struggle
Brings
Compromising
Constant
Ideal
Judge
Knees
Ultimate
Constantly
Leave
Makes
Others
Room
See
Way
Your
I have a raging temper. I'll shout and scream, then it passes like a wicked storm.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Storm
Like
Wicked
Temper
Passes
Raging
Scream
Shout
Then
Describing someone as quirky is a way of erasing them. What does it even mean? In so many interviews over the years, that's how I'm described. It doesn't sit comfortably with me.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Me
Way
Someone
Sit
Comfortably
Describing
Interviews
Quirky
Does
Even
How
Many
Mean
Over
Them
Years
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