Jeff Bridges Quotes

Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.

Jeff Bridges

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• I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Career
  • Start

• Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

  

  Tabitha King
  • People
  • Eye
  • Understand

• The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Believe
  • Done
  • You

• I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Change
  • Me
  • Tired

• I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Mistakes

• So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Women
  • You
  • Start

• I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Feel
  • Learned
  • Students

• I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Home
  • Ireland
  • Audition

• I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• These days I'm pretty much a businessman.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Pretty
  • Days
  • Businessman

• Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Community
  • Support
  • Vision

• Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • May
  • Together

• Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men

• The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Struggle
  • Teacher

• My dame, sing for this person accurate songs.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Time
  • Thanks

• Like a whirling wind which rushes down a sandy and hollow valley, and which, in its hasty course, drives to its centre every thing that opposes its furious course... No otherwise does the Northern blast whirl round in its tempestuous progress...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Progress
  • Wind

• Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few.

  

  Harvey Penick
  • Game
  • Golf

• I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Men
  • Think
  • Myself

• Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly complicated calculations, but that's not really the essence of it. The essence of it is that physics is about concepts, wanting to understand the concepts, the principles by which the world works.

  

  Edward Witten
  • People
  • World
  • Question

• My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Parents
  • Advice
  • Ocean

• Don't ever, ever devalue your product. Ever. It's the worst thing anyone can do to hurt your brand.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Hurt

• Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.

  

  Jeff Bridges