Jake Gyllenhaal Actors Quotations

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.

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.

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

I think, when someone say, "When did you feel like an actor?" it's those moments when I feel like, "I'm an actor, wow." That's an extraordinary moment for me. So it's not like I walk around going, "I'm an actor."

I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!

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 that's what matters to me the most.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.