Jeff Bridges quotes

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

#Powerful #Men #Violence

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Country #Children #War

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Lazy #Busy #Wells

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Life #Men #Good Times

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Real #Clothes #Light

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Children #Issues #Poverty

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Sobriety

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Believe #Acting #Pretending

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Wife #Focus #Together

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Thinking #Long #Littles

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Differences #Knowing #America

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

#Dance #Ballet #Titles

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Perfect #Mind #Balls

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Ideas #Firsts #Directors

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Father #People #Rose

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

#Photography #Way #Found

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

#Creativity #Different #Way

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

#Acting #Use #Talent

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!
-- Jeff Bridges

#Being Happy #Party #Thinking

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

#Motivation #Receiving #Imagine

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Wife #Kites #Strings

If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Crazy #Fighting #Ideas

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

#Scared

People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Falling In Love #People #Mysterious

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Wind #Water #Different

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Kids #Four #Faces

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Joy #Trying #Way

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

#Actors #Way #Wonderful

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Philosophy #Heart #Caring

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Character #Lines #Kind

Life's picking up speed.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Speed

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Growing Up #Kids #Fiction

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Wife #Santa #Take Me Away

Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Rays #Yeah #Bradbury

Movies are like magic tricks.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Magic #Magic Tricks #Tricks

Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Gutters #Kind #All Kinds

We love things that are convenient.
-- Jeff Bridges

To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Adventure #Iron #Therapy

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

#Children #Way #Odd

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Ideas #Path #Helping

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Tools #Helping #Wonderful

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Thinking #Acting #Sometimes

My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Fun #Drawing #Kind

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Fame

My mom wasn't a movie star.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Mom #Mother #Stars

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

#Awards #Mind #Kind

The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Oscars #Nominations

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Trying #Scripts #Projects

Movies are very subjective.
-- Jeff Bridges

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

#Horse #Yeah

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

#Song #Teenager #Writing

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Character #Technology #Age

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#People #Campaigns #Shows

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Actors #Pay #Publicity

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Feelings #Thank God #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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Father #Feet #Doors

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Stuff #Easier #Difficult

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Mind #Definitions #Way

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Dance #Mom #Class

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Mom #Mother #Thinking

Always maintain a joyful mind. Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Struggle #Opportunity #Appreciate

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Goal #Care #Lines

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Mean #Wife #Trying

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Lists #Okay

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Running #Hate #Technology

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Art #America #Childhood

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Kids #Hands #Issues

As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Teamwork #Roots #Way

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Men #Thinking #Romantic Love

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Creating #Knowing #Political

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Dark #Thinking #People

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Ocean #Mean #School

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Art #Messages #Receiving

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Art #Character #Might

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Couple #Way #Film

I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It's always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It's like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn't me? Or is it something else: I'm being very serious now. I'm pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Real #Pie #Laughing