Jeff Bridges Quotes
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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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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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When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.
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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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Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.
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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'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.
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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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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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In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
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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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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 do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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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.'