Jeff Bridges Quotes
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The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.
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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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You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.
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You don't want to vilify your ego.
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I wish I were more disciplined.
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The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
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Words fall short sometimes.
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Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.
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Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.
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I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.
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Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.
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You have these big $200 and $300 million movies with special effects, and I've always thought, 'Gee, why don't we make 30 movies instead of one $300 million movie?' Let's shake it up a bit; wouldn't that be a better bet? Evidently not.
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Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.
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Women are so - maybe this is just a male perspective, but for my money, they're so connected to life in a way that men aren't. They're able to give birth, have children, and it's literally a part of them. They perhaps have a stronger capacity for caring than males.
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I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
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Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!
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As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
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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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I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
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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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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
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The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we've got guns all over the place. It's basically a cold war for individuals: you've got a nuclear bomb, and I've got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.
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As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.
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Execution is everything.