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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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 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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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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My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
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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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Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.
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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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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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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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My mom wasn't a movie star.
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One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.
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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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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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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!