Jake gyllenhaal

Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just...

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.