Jeff Bridges Quotes
I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.
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Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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I come from the hi-tech world - you don't survive if you don't constantly reinvent yourself every few years.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.
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My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
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You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
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The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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A present loses its value when it is given without the choice of the person who receives it. Caesar was given death, and so was Cassius. However, Cassius was indebted to the slave who gave it to him, while Caesar owed nothing to his murderers, because they forced him to take it.
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My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.
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The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.
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Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is the kind of person who wants to. But if you can write, you can find a good way to do it.
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No one is going to break me. No one is going to stop me. No one is going to remove a vision that I see for myself and the love that's in my heart.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.
