Jeff Bridges Quotes
We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
Quotes to Explore
-
People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
-
On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
-
One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
-
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
-
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
-
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
-
Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
-
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
-
I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
-
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
-
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
-
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
-
You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
-
My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
-
Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
-
Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
-
In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
-
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
-
The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.
-
There's a new role that I see for myself with the new Republican majority running the Senate. I am now the premiere ambassador for the state from the Republican majority.
-
I have visited (Burma) and I know that there is only one instrument of government, and that is the army...If I were Aung San Suu Kyi, I think I'd rather be behind a fence and be a symbol than after two or three years, be found impotent.
-
Each man in his way is a treasure.
-
Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.
-
We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
