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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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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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'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 don't really care about having more fame than I have.
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I'm a big fan of country.
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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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've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.
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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 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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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've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.
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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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People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
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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 think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
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I don't dig Trump or follow what he has to say, but I find it fascinating that he's surfaced in the political arena. But I'm a Hillary supporter, and I don't go the Trump way.
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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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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.
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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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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.