It's a hard life to have sex with eight to 10 men a night. That's hard physically, let alone emotionally.
Maggie GyllenhaalMost 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.
Maggie GyllenhaalI think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.
Maggie GyllenhaalPeople write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on the way to school. I get a little bit inured to it in a way that I think most people probably aren't.
Maggie GyllenhaalIf you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't such a great thing. Probably the only way to really play a hooker well is to believe you're doing something that's good. But at the same time, the movie can't have that point of view.
Maggie Gyllenhaal