Maggie GyllenhaalI do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.363Reading
Maggie GyllenhaalThere 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 k… ▶374Reading
Maggie GyllenhaalA 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… ▶294Life
Maggie GyllenhaalWho 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… ▶283Time
Maggie GyllenhaalI 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.305HumorThought
Maggie GyllenhaalI 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. ✨ Maggie Gyllenhaal for “Criminal”. I… ▶295Sadness
Maggie GyllenhaalI don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.318Humanity
Maggie GyllenhaalI really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.263Truth
Maggie GyllenhaalHaving an education is invaluable.231Life
Maggie GyllenhaalWhat 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. ✨ You'll Never Guess What&… ▶254Thought
Maggie GyllenhaalI studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.211DeathReading
Maggie GyllenhaalI feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.234Humanity
Maggie GyllenhaalI 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.205PoliticsThought
Maggie GyllenhaalYou'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, bu… ▶227Thought
Maggie GyllenhaalThese 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. Learn… ▶2310Time
Maggie GyllenhaalI 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.153Philosophy
Maggie GyllenhaalIf 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 the… ▶164Reflection
Maggie GyllenhaalI 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.133HumanityThought
Maggie GyllenhaalI liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.145Thought
Maggie GyllenhaalA 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.1810Thought
Maggie GyllenhaalI 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.149Time
Maggie GyllenhaalI 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,… ▶138HumanityLifeThought
