Jeff Bridges Quotes

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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• There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Money
  • Acting

• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • People
  • Think
  • Ancestors

• I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Job
  • Success

• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • You
  • Take
  • Shots

• I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Live
  • Try
  • Medicine

• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Stop

• Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • War

• I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Know
  • Easy

• I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

  

  T.I.
  • Reality
  • Television

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Record
  • Very
  • Catchy

• If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Success

• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Way
  • Start
  • Luck

• A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
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• In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Time
  • School
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• Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Water
  • Jesus

• Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • God
  • Business
  • Attention

• I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Time
  • Great
  • Always

• I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Life

• It used to be, like, the sanctity of rock was that you could never let a song of yours be used in a commercial. It was like, 'Oh man, we'll never let our music be exploited that way.' Now they'll call you up and say, 'You gotta use this song in your movie, man. It's the new VW ad! People love it.' And you realize, boy, have times changed.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Anymore cutting and the movie would be as silly as cutting a condensed Reader's Digest novel.

  

  Charles Willeford
  • Movie
  • Cutting
  • Silly

• My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.

  

  Kate Williams
  • She
  • Grandmother
  • Grandfather

• Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Movie