Jeff Bridges Quotes
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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'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
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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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The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.
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I've been playing since I was a teenager, and I put out a few albums when I was younger. When 'Crazy Heart' took off, it gave me another reason to get into music in a more serious fashion.
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Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.
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The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
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My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.
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You don't want to vilify your ego.
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If you're married you'll have tough times.
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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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Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
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I love marriage.
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
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When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.
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I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
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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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I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.
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In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
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Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.
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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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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 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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We love things that are convenient.