Jeff Bridges Quotes
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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'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
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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 love marriage.
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As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.
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When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.
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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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That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
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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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What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.
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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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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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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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Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.
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In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
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I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.
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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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If you're married you'll have tough times.
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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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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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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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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 gotta take notes when things occur to me.
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I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.