Jeff Bridges Quotes
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I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.
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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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Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
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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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I'm a big fan of country.
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People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't really care about having more fame than I have.
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Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.
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It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.
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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
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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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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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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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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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The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.
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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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My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.