Jeff Bridges Quotes
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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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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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There's a bit of the kid in me.
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In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
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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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I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
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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'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.
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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'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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In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
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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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When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.
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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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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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I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.
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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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Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
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I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.
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Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.
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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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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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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.