Jeff Bridges Quotes
Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.
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My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.
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I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
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Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
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If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
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I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.
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We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.
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I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.
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My advice for someone who wants to be creative but has a chronic illness is to think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that. It's just like gardening: What can grow in this soil? There's some soil you can grow roses in and some soil you can only grow cactuses in, so if you can only grow cactuses, become the best cactus grower in the whole world. Taking care of yourself is the most important thing. Find something that makes you happy. Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.
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When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?'
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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.
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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
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Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.
