Jeff Bridges Quotes

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

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• I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

  

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• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

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• Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

  

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• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

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• Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

  

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• There's more to life than physical and material.

  

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• This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

  

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• People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

  

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• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

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• I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.

  

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• It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  

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• Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

  

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• I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.

  

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• Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.

  

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• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

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• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

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• Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

  

  Jeff Bridges
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