Jeff Bridges Quotes
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We love things that are convenient.
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I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
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One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.
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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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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.
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Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.
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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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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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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 like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.
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My mom wasn't a movie star.
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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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If you're married you'll have tough times.
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I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.
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I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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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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My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.
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I used to read comics when I was a kid.
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I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!