Jeff Bridges Quotes
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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 do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
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Directing takes a lot of time.
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I want to have all of my faculties.
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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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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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If you're married you'll have tough times.
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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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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've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.
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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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When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.
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In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
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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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I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.
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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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We love things that are convenient.
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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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Movies are like magic tricks.
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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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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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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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Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.
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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.