Jeff Bridges Quotes
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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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Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
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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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The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.
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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.
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I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.
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I don't really think in career terms.
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If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.
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You don't want to vilify your ego.
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Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.
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I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
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I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
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My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.
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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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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.
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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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I don't have too many plans filled out. I know I want to keep doing more music. I've got a couple of albums worth of songs I'd like to put it out there. As far as movies, I just want to continue how I've been doing it: working with terrific people is certainly on my agenda, and then doing stories that interest me.
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It's the same assignment on every part: you want to create a real world, and the tone of it is a little different on each movie. You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.
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When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.
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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.
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I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I'm so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I'm just madly in love with.
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For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.
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That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.