Top 318 Quotes & Sayings by Jeff Bridges - Page 2

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.

Movies are very subjective.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

I love marriage.

I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I like to know where the camera is.

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

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.

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.

You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

I want to have all of my faculties.

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

I used to read comics when I was a kid.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I wish I were more disciplined.

I'm a big fan of country.

Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

We're here for such a short period of time.

What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.

Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.

I don't really care about having more fame than I have.

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.

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.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

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.' And then, thank God, that feeling goes away after a month or so and I'm raring to go again.

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.

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

I'm not locked into playing one guy.

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.