Top 100 Jeff Bridges Quotes
#1. I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.
Michael Sheen
#3. I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.
Bill Hader
#4. Jeff Bridges says that the reason he's one of the few stars in Hollywood whose made his marriage last for decades is that every time they think there's no more doors left to walk through in the room, they just keep looking and keep looking until they find one.
Emma Forrest
#5. I was surprised by how much of it I was in [Tron: Legacy]. I thought the character was just going to register as a smaller figure because most of what I did was with a body double, and then I would do the stand-in with Jeff [Bridges] and he would be just wearing his regular clothes.
James Frain
#6. It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
Sam Elliott
#7. I'm interested in Jeff Bridges. I love that guy. And I did like Carey Mulligan in 'An Education.' And I love Meryl Streep, but if they could ban 'Julie & Julia,' I'd be in favor of that.
Andy Kindler
#8. Jeff Bridges is one of those icons that I put on a very high pedestal, so just to get to chill with him off-camera on cold, rainy days was surreal.
Kit Harington
#9. I love Jeff Bridges. You can never go wrong with that guy. I hope to work with him one day.
Chad Lindberg
#10. Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.
Ben Barnes
#11. The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'
Stephen Rodrick
#12. I am a little in awe of Jeff Bridges. He's an actor I have admired for many years, and so I didn't know who I was going to get, in the sense that I didn't know what he was going to be like. And so I was pleasantly surprised that he is this kind of laid-back guy.
James Frain
#13. Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me, so I just stared at them. I stared at both of them. And they were like, 'Alright, fine.'
Jennifer Lawrence
#14. Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.
Robert Englund
#15. Who isn't a fan of Jeff Bridges? And he is such a unique character. I can't think of anybody who's quite like him. He was a lot of fun to be around, just personally.
Marisa Miller
#16. Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.
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#17. I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
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#19. The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
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#20. As you become famous you lose some of your anonymity, which is wonderful for an actor to have because you can observe people and also people don't have such a strong sense of who you are and that sort of thing.
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#21. Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
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#22. Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.
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#23. My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.
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#24. I never read reviews of something I want to see.
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#25. I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.
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#26. I'm used to watching old movies of myself.
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#27. 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.
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#28. Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
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#32. Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
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#33. I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.
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#34. 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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#35. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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#41. 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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#42. You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.
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#44. 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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#45. I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood.
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#46. 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.
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#47. I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.
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#48. You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
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#49. A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.
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#50. Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.
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#51. 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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#52. 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.
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#53. I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.
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#58. I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.
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#59. 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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#60. I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.
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#61. 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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#62. 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!
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#63. 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.
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#64. Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
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#65. 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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#66. Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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#67. It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.
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#68. Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.
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#69. 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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#73. One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.
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#74. 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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#75. 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.
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.
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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.
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#83. 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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#84. 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.
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#86. 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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#87. That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
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#88. 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.
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#89. 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.
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#90. Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
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#91. I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.
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#92. It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.
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#95. To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.
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#96. 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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#97. I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
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#98. 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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#99. I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.
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#100. The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something ... Maybe you just need to take a nap.
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