Jeff Bridges Quotes
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Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.
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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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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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Directing takes a lot of time.
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I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.
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If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
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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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One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
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I'm kind of an idea guy.
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Movies are like magic tricks.
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I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.
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A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
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I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.
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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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When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.
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I want to have all of my faculties.
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The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.
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I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.
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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.'
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I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
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I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
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This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.
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We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.
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Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.