Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn’t leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there’s no ideal – a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
Simple black-and-white thinking or action is always going to be problematic. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
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. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
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. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
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. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
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. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
I 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. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women’s roles. But I found them and did all of them just now. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
I liked that idea. Someone who’s trying to perform herself and not succeeding. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
I 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. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
