Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.

I've done it a number of times. They have two daughters. Sarsgaard is married to actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Sarsgaard has appeared in an eclectic range of films including the 2004 comedy-drama Garden State the biographical film Kinsey (2004) the drama The Dying Gaul (2005) and big-budget films such as Flightplan (2005) Jarhead (2005) Orphan (2009) Knight and Day (2010) and the superhero film Green Lantern (2011). Sarsgaard has also appeared in Off-Broadway productions including Kingdom of Earth Laura Dennis and Burn This. Sarsgaard appeared in the off-Broadway production of Uncle Vanya in January 2009.