Top 100 Jeff Bridges Quotes
#1. I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
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#3. Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.
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#4. I never read reviews of something I want to see.
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#6. Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
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#7. Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
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#8. 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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#10. 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.
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#11. People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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#12. 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.
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#13. I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood.
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#14. A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.
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#15. 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.
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#16. I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.
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#17. Some people say you have to work with everything, but there's a time and a place. If it feels like a knot, wait. It will come up again when you and the universe are ready.
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#18. You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.
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#19. Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
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#20. I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.
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#21. 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.
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#22. I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.
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#23. Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
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#24. I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.
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#25. Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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#26. It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.
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#27. Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.
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#29. One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go.
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#33. During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.
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#34. As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.
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#35. If you're going to wait to get all the information you think you need before you act, you'll never act because there's an infinite amount of information out there.
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#37. Making a film, it uses a certain ... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.
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#38. That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
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#39. Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
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#40. To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.
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#41. 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.
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#42. There are some actors that want you to call them by their character's name and they have no relationship with you outside of the character. But I like to get to know who I'm working with so that we can relax together, and it's more fun.
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#43. The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something ... Maybe you just need to take a nap.
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#44. 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.
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#45. I don't really care about having more fame than I have.
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#46. It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
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#47. 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.
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#49. My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.
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#50. 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.
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#51. I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
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#52. One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.
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#54. I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
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#59. I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
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#60. If you're married you'll have tough times.
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#64. I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.
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#65. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see, and then ... one day ... I got in!
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#67. Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.
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#68. When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.
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#69. 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.
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#70. 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.
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#71. I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.
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#72. I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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#73. The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
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#74. 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.
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#75. I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.
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#76. I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.
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#77. That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
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#78. I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.
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#79. When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
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#81. I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.
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#82. Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.
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#83. I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.
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#84. I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.
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#86. 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.
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#87. I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
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#88. When you're a professional you gotta do it [your job] when you don't feel like doing it.
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#89. Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.
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#90. My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
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#92. I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
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#93. 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.
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#94. It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.
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#95. 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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#98. I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.
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#99. Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.
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#100. 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.
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