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" Having an education is invaluable. "

Maggie Gyllenhaal

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" I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things. "

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" 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. "

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" I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now. "

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" 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. "

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" I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. "

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" We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs. "

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" 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. "

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" You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you. "

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