Jeff Bridges Quotes
I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.
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Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
