Jeff Bridges Quotes
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As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.
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I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.
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Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
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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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It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.
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I really try my best not to get attached to a script, because I know what it takes: It takes you away from your family and what you like to do.
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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 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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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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It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.
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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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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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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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I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.
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It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.
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You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.
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In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
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I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
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I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
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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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Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.
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I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
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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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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.