Jeff Bridges Quotes
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That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.
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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've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.
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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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Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.
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I'm a big fan of country.
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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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Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
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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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It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.
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When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
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I haven't been to Comic-Con.
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So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.
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I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
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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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People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
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I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.
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It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?
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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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There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, that are preventable. So many guns that are left loaded, unlocked. So you can educate. That doesn't seem to be too controversial - education.
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My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.