Quotes by Maggie Gyllenhaal

Maggie Gyllenhaal

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.

Able

Feelings

Mean

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don’t feel despairing at all. And I’m more looking with hope for something fascinating.

Actresses

Complicated

Real

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.

Evening

Morning

Play

Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn’t believe in.

Believe

Important

Thinking

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don’t work.

Down And

Mother

Writing

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

Actors

Order

Space

Having an education is invaluable.

Invaluable

Honestly, I’m always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

Honestly

Implications

Political

I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way and I am also looking for roles that I think will force me to grow or learn something about myself or the world in order to play them well.

Order

Play

Thinking

I didn’t think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter’s, I didn’t even think about it. Then I finished nursing, and I was kind of like “Oh, huh, wow, my body’s so different.”

Daughter

Nursing

Thinking

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Quotes by Maggie Gyllenhaal

Maggie Gyllenhaal

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.

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don’t feel despairing at all. And I’m more looking with hope for something fascinating.

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.

Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn’t believe in.

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don’t work.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

Having an education is invaluable.

Honestly, I’m always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way and I am also looking for roles that I think will force me to grow or learn something about myself or the world in order to play them well.

I didn’t think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter’s, I didn’t even think about it. Then I finished nursing, and I was kind of like “Oh, huh, wow, my body’s so different.”

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