Jake Gyllenhaal: Acting is an 'Incredibly Immature & Selfish' Job

Jake Gyllenhaal addresses the crowd before a screening of his new movie Nightcrawler on Saturday night (October 25) at The Rave Theater in Philadelphia, Penn.

The 33-year-old actor, who took a ton of fan selfies, recently opened up about the oddity of being an actor.

“Acting is an incredibly immature and selfish profession, but I also believe on the flip side of that coin, it can also produce great empathy,” Jake said at a recent panel (via THR). “Understand that it is an extraordinarily sensitive job, and I don’t mean to be self-indulgent, but it’s an odd job. It’s an odd thing conjuring up feelings in the midst of all this chaos…it’s magic.”

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