Jeff Bridges Quotes

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

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• I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • World
  • Important
  • Hope

• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • America
  • Opinion

• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Motherhood

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • People
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Years
  • Been
  • January

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Night
  • Day
  • Morning

• Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Children
  • Health

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Lawyer

• My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Life
  • Why
  • My Life

• I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • Want
  • Achieving

• Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Equality

• My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Health
  • Trust

• My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Different
  • Father