Jeff Bridges Quotes

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.

Jeff Bridges

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• It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

  

  Tara Reid
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Character
  • Play
  • Rock

• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Work
  • Father

• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Father
  • Piano

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mother

• Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Business
  • Goals
  • Distance

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • School
  • Business

• I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Father
  • Prison
  • Electricity

• Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Said

• I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Family
  • Father

• I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Made
  • Mistakes

• It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Food

• Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

  

  Major Owens
  • Long
  • Washington
  • Ignoring

• I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care whether I win it, someone else wins it.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Business
  • Revolution
  • Win

• My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kids
  • Person
  • Inspire

• College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Want
  • College

• My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Parents

• I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Never
  • Piano

• Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Country
  • Black

• I had to fight Donald Cerrone, Anthony Pettis, Gil Melendez, Rafael Dos Anjos. I had to fight these guys in order to prove myself in order to get a title shot.

  

  Eddie Alvarez

• To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Song
  • Skins
  • Provocative

• Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Father