Top 318 Quotes & Sayings by Jeff Bridges - Page 3

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that. — © Jeff Bridges
The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
We love things that are convenient.
To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.
I never read reviews of something I want to see.
I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.
I don't really think in career terms.
I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.
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.
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now. — © Jeff Bridges
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
I'm a pretty basic surfer.
I resist life.
I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.
The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
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.
When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.
I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.
My mom wasn't a movie star.
I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.
I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.
That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.
I haven't been to Comic-Con.
One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.
I'm a longboard guy.
I like people.
Mania is a wonderful feeling.
I'm not real good at romance.
I'm light and airy.
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
Life's picking up speed.
I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop. — © Jeff Bridges
I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.
Directing takes a lot of time.
Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.
Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.
Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.
Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.
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.
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.
Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.
If you're married you'll have tough times.
In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara. — © Jeff Bridges
Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.
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.
Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.
It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.
Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.
If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.
I'm kind of an idea guy.
I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.
As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.
I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.
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