Jeff Bridges Quotes
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I want to have all of my faculties.
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We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
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My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.
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There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.
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Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.
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Movies are like magic tricks.
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My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
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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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If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.
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My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
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Often when I finish a film I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.' And then, thank God, that feeling goes away after a month or so and I'm raring to go again.
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Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.
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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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Directing takes a lot of time.
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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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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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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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Execution is everything.
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That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
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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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In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
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Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.
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I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.