Maggie Gyllenhaal (Actor)

"For so long I was told I wasn't sexy enough or beautiful enough. It felt confusing and painful." - Gyllenhaal to Entertainment Weekly, Aug. 4, 2006

"Hollywood right now is really focused on movies that will appeal to tons and tons of people by being kind of benign, but I think there's a way to appeal to tons and tons of people by being astounding. And I would love to be in a movie like that!" - Gyllenhaal to Movieline magazine, October 2002

"I've realised that the only way to make movies that you're proud of, that don't fall into the sentimental bullsh*t that so many movies fall into, is to fight. You have to fight. So many people are willing to sleepwalk through things and fall into the not human, not interesting choice. To make the really interesting choice, you have to fight." - Gyllenhaal quoted to The Guardian, May 9, 2003

"My parents were never celebrities," she says. "They worked on movies, that was their job. And seeing them go up and down in that world makes me a little wary of buying into all the attention I’ve been getting recently." - Gyllenhaal to NYLON magazine, May 2004

"Someone asked me why I didn't do teen movies or actiony movies, but I'm not interested in them, and they're not interested in me either!" - Gyllenhaal to Vanity Fair magazine, August, 2002

Gyllenhaal on becoming a mother and turning thirty: "I feel ready to be in my body and be a woman in a different way, and be an actress in a different way." - from Vanity Fair magazine, May 2008