Jeff Bridges Quotes

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

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.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.

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.

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.

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

When you truly commit in your life, you start receiving more than you could imagine.

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.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

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

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

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

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

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

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

I know how to dance with the wind, I can use its power by sailing this way, then that way, and again this way, till finally I get to you. With rowing, you're working primarily with your arms and shoulders. But with sailing, you're making bigger use of the wind and the waves.

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

Movies are very subjective.

I wish I were more disciplined.

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.

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

Execution is everything.

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

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

"The Big Lebowski" is a real masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I suppose I'm a bit biased because I'm in it.

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.

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.

As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.

Taylor Sheridan I think wrote a very good script. It reeked of authenticity. He seemed like a guy who knew what he was talking about and it turned out that Taylor's uncle is a Marshal, so he knew things from that side.

I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

I never read reviews of something I want to see.

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.

Obviously it's fun to let yourself go and eat a pint of Haagen Dazs, but being healthy feels the best. Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

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

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.

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.

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

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 kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see, and then....one day....I got in!

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

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.

Words fall short sometimes.

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 think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

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. It's funny, I get an image of the thing with eggs and chickens where, when the egg is getting ready to hatch, the little chicken will start to peck at the shell a little bit, and the mom will hear that and start to peck at the shell from the outside, and they're both kind of working together.

I've never been motivated by the award thing. There's a certain thing that this fame thing does that makes my job harder, in a way. I'm still working with that. I don't think about it too much until somebody asks me a question, and then I think about it.