Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

I'm very much in a mindset that I take myself out of anything that I'm not involved in.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'

I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.

I think it's important to know your limitations too.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.

I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?

I don't know anymore where I begin and Obama ends.

I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.

Sometimes I have a very bad point of being too obnoxious. I am not too obnoxious. I mean, I just try to make things more peaceful. Me being obnoxious makes a lot of things more peaceful.

My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a bit of him there.

I know what to keep to myself. I know what I want to give up.

Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.

It's very hard to balance being there for somebody else and taking care of yourself.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

Even though there will be times when I'll need to protect myself - there will definitely be times when I'll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life - there's a grace there... no pun intended!

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.