Jeff Bridges Quotes
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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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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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I wish I were more disciplined.
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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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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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You don't want to vilify your ego.
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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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My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
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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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I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.
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I love marriage.
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With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.
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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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I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
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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 also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
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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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Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.
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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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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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My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
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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 like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.