Jake Gyllenhaal movie quotes

“- Mike Mulcahey: Joe, we are brothers. I'm younger than you are. I'm a man of your time. What do we brother's lack...?
- Joe Nast: So... uh, so many things...?
- Mike Mulcahey: One thing!... one... time!”
Dabney Coleman - Mike Mulcahey
Jake Gyllenhaal - Joe Nast

“We call this friendly fire, friendly fucking, or getting friendly fucked.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“- Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: What about freedom of speech? The Constitution?
- Staff Sgt. Sykes: You don't have any rights. You got any complaints you complain to Saddam Insane. You are a marine. There is no such thing as speech that is free. You must pay for everything that you say.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford
Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes

“They say it right when they flood the house, and they tear it to shreds that, destruction is a form of creation. So the fact that they burn the money is ironic. They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart. They want to change things.”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko

“The truth is hard. Sometimes it looks so wrong, y'know. The color's off, the style's wrong, but I guess... I guess it's where the good ones live.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Joe Nast

“I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either, it's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“- Homer: We should be trying to get into that science fair instead of sitting around here like a bunch of hillbillies.
- Roy Lee: Well, I got some real sad news for you Homer. We are a bunch of hillbillies.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam
William Lee Scott - Roy Lee

“- Curtis Coleman: Did Josh really kill a guy?
- Sam: Dad is trying to cover for him, but I saw him. He beat him over the head with a pool stick he was so mad.
- Leon Coleman: What was he so mad about?
- Sam: The guy called him a homo.”
Sean Baca - Curtis Coleman
Noah Fleiss - Sam
Jake Gyllenhaal - Leon Coleman

“- Jack Twist: Ever notice how a woman'll powder her nose before a party starts, and the powder it again when the party's over? Why powder your nose just to go home to bed?
- Randall Malone: Don't know. Even if I wanted to know, couldn't get a word in with Lashawn long enough to ask. Woman talks a blue streak.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Jack Twist
David Harbour - Randall Malone

“- Jack Hall: I'm not angry. I'm disappointed.
- Sam Hall: Do you wanna hear my side of it?
- Jack Hall: How can there be two sides?”

Dennis Quaid - Jack Hall
Jake Gyllenhaal - Sam Hall

“If I go on to win at Indianapolis, I can go to college, maybe even get a job at Cape Canaveral. There's nothing here for me. The town is dying! The mine is dying! Everybody here knows that but you!”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“Every war is different, every war is the same.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“I have reached the end of your book and there are so many things that I need to ask you. Sometimes I'm afraid of what you might tell me. Sometimes I'm afraid that you'll tell me that this is not a work of fiction. I can only hope that the answers will come to me in my sleep.”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko

“For most problems the Marine is issued a solution. If ill, go to sickbay. If wounded, call a Corpsman. If dead, report to graves registration. If losing his mind no standard solution exists.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“- Quentin: What do you want to know about rockets?
- Homer: Everything.”
Chris Owen - Quentin
Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“- Donnie Darko: I made a new friend.
- Dr. Lilian Thurman: Real or imaginary?
- Donnie Darko: Imaginary.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko
Katharine Ross - Dr. Lilian Thurman

“- Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Thank you.
- Staff Sgt. Sykes: Don't thank me, just don't fuckin' die.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford
Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes

“My family is not more important than my friends. My dad won't even come to one launch!”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“That's Vietnam music. Can't we get our own music?”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“- Donnie Darko: How can you do that?
- Frank: I can do anything I want. And so can you.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko
James Duval - Frank

“Quentin, I wouldn't care if you lived in the Governor's mansion. I'd still think you're weird!”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“- Ennis Del Mar: This is a one-shot thing we got goin' on here.
- Jack Twist: It's nobody's business but ours.
- Ennis Del Mar: You know I ain't queer.
- Jack Twist: Me neither.”
Heath Ledger - Ennis Del Mar
Jake Gyllenhaal - Jack Twist

“- Jimmy Livingston: I'm Jimmy.
- Chloe: I'm Chloe.
- Jimmy Livingston: Chloe! The whore next door!
- Chloe: What? Where did you hear that?
- Jimmy Livingston: My Mom, she teaches me everything.
- Chloe: Well, really, she got it wrong. I'm actually more of a bitch than a whore.
- Jimmy Livingston: A bitch. Oh yeah, a bitch. Absolutely a bitch.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Jimmy Livingston
Marley Shelton - Chloe

“- Dr. Lilian Thurman: Do you still think about girls a lot? How are things going at school?
- Donnie Darko: I think about girls a lot.
- Dr. Lilian Thurman: I asked you about school, Donnie.
- Donnie Darko: I think about fucking a lot during school.”
Katharine Ross - Dr. Lilian Thurman
Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko

“- Gretchen Ross: I just want it to be at a time when it... When it reminds me just...
- Donnie Darko: When it reminds you how beautiful the world can be?”

Jena Malone - Gretchen Ross
Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko