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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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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.
Jeff Bridges
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If you're married you'll have tough times.
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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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I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
Jeff Bridges -
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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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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That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
Jeff Bridges
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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.'
Jeff Bridges -
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.
Jeff Bridges -
In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
Jeff Bridges -
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.
Jeff Bridges -
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.
Jeff Bridges -
A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.
Jeff Bridges
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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.
Jeff Bridges -
My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
Jeff Bridges -
Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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We love things that are convenient.
Jeff Bridges -
As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.
Jeff Bridges -
Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.
Jeff Bridges