"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."

0

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Explore more quotes by Maggie Gyllenhaal

"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."

Life, Day, Evening, Play

"Having an education is invaluable."

Education,

"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."

Trust, Now

"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."

Movies, Power, Effect, Help

"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."

Movies, People, Challenge, Trying

"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."

Work, Artist, Circumstances, Opinion

"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."

Woman,

"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."

Conversation, Years

"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."

Acting, Clothes, Film

"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."

Movies, Women, Sex, People

Exlpore more Being quotes

"'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'"

John Abbott, Canadian Statesman

Being, Man, Questions

"I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published."

Lynn Abbey, American Author

Being, Fantasy, Writer

"While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it."

Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., American Soldier

Being, Country, Ethics, Needs

"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."

John Acton, English Historian

Being, Conscience, Duty, Freewill

"I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way."

Kathy Acker, American Activist

Being, Language

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Being, Garden, Songs, Value

"There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Being,

"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Being,

"Being number two sucks."

Andre Agassi, American Athlete

Being,

"I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity."

Brian Aldiss, English Writer

Being, Identity