Jeff Bridges Quotes
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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.
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I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.
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Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
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What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.
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I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.
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Do we really need to arm our citizens with machine guns or semiautomatic weapons? And don't we need to make sure that people who do own guns are qualified to own them?
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You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
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My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
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Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.
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People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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I'm a big fan of country.
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I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.
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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.
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You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.
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It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.
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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
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My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.
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I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
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I don't really care about having more fame than I have.
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For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
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I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.
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Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.