Jeff Bridges Quotes
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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 always busy, but I'm lazy as well.
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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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I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
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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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Movies are like magic tricks.
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I want to have all of my faculties.
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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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When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.
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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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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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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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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've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.
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I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.
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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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I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
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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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Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.
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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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We love things that are convenient.
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Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.