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  • I get magnetically pulled towards a project because there's something in it that offers me the opportunity to explore the edge of my understanding about myself.
    - Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    - Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time.
    - Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • The older I get, the more vulnerable I get. But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants to bulldoze things, gets in my way.
    - Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • I think what happened to me was I was so lucky to have made 'Secretary' so young. It's unusual to be given an opportunity to express yourself as an actress that young and that thoroughly.
    - Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • After making 'Secretary,' it was a real shock to me to learn that some directors just aren't interested in what actors have to say. They just don't want to collaborate.
    - Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Therapy was incredibly enlightening. I don't think it's only necessary if you're unwell - it's a useful tool for me to understand my own mind and how it works.
    - Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Describing someone as quirky is a way of erasing them. What does it even mean? In so many interviews over the years, that's how I'm described. It doesn't sit comfortably with me.
    - Maggie Gyllenhaal