Jeff Bridges Quotes
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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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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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It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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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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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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People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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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 think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
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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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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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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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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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Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of 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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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'm a big fan of country.
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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 haven't been to Comic-Con.
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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'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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Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
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I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.
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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.