Jeff Bridges Quotes
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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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I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
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My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.
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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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The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy - put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns, and my dad loved to ride.
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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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 love to paint, do ceramics, photography. I got a lot of side things that I like to do.
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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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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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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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The toughest thing about making movies is being apart from your family. One of the things I try my best to do is call my wife every day to keep up to speed with what's going on in her life. And tell her what's going on with mine.
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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've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.
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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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Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
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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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People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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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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I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.
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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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Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.
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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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I haven't been to Comic-Con.