Top 318 Quotes & Sayings by Jeff Bridges
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Last updated on September 11, 2024.
It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.
I don't dig Trump or follow what he has to say, but I find it fascinating that he's surfaced in the political arena. But I'm a Hillary supporter, and I don't go the Trump way.
For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.
When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.
Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.
Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.
Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.
The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.
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.
A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.
I'm not counting any chickens.
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.
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.
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
Movies are like magic tricks.
My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.
One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.
I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
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.
I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.
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.
I'm used to watching old movies of myself.
I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
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.
I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.
I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.
Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
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.
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!
We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
Execution is everything.
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.
I do a lot of ceramics.
You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I'm so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I'm just madly in love with.
There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.
Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.
When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.
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.
The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.
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.
That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
Words fall short sometimes.
People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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