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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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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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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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
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There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.
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The resurrection is In spirit done in thee, As soon as thou from all Thy sins hast set thee free.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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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.
