Jeff Bridges Quotes

There's a bit of the kid in me. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

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

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

A famous Japanese Zen master, Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, said that unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don't know what you're talking about. Some fifty years ago a UCLA professor told me the same thing about applied mathematics. We like to hide from the truth behind foreign-sounding words or mathematical lingo. There's a saying: The truth is always encountered but rarely perceived. If we don't perceive it, we can't help ourselves and we can't much help anyone else. ~ Jeff Bridges

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father. ~ Jeff Bridges

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed. ~ Jeff Bridges

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant. ~ Michael Sheen

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

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

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

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

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing. ~ Jeff Bridges

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

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

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

Kevin Bacon and I recently worked on a move together, R.I.P.D. Just before we'd begin a scene, when all of us would feel the normal anxiety that actors feel be- fore they start to perform, Kevin would look at me and the other actors with a very serious expression on his face and say: "Remember, everything depends on this!" It would make us all laugh. On the one hand, it's not true of course, but on the other, everything does depend on this, on just this moment and our attitude toward this moment. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

I'm a pretty basic surfer. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

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

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

Movies are very subjective. ~ Jeff Bridges

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

As a kid, you want to be liked for who you are. You don't want to be liked for who your parents are. You don't want to get a job because of who your parents are. You want to do it on your own, with your own gifts and your own value. So, I decided to spare my kids that and not be as pro-active as my dad was. ~ Jeff Bridges

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

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

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness. ~ Jeff Bridges

Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless. ~ Jeff Bridges

I do a lot of ceramics. ~ Jeff Bridges

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people. ~ Jeff Bridges

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

Well that's like, your opinion, man. ~ Jeff Bridges

You know I grew up on the Batman movies, and they had some terrific actors in, but you know a lot of the other ones - it wasn't always the case that you had people the caliber of Jeff Bridges or Robert Downey, so to kind of show up and work with Jeremy Renner or Robert or with Mark Ruffalo, any of them, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, the caliber of people you're acting with, to me, is really fun. From the first day I started doing scenes with Robert, it's been one of the funnest experiences I've ever had. ~ Clark Gregg

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

For me and my wife, it was love at first sight. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

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

You don't want to vilify your ego. ~ Jeff Bridges

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

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

If you're married you'll have tough times. ~ Jeff Bridges

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it. ~ Jeff Bridges

One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to happen, and it's certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations. ~ Jeff Bridges

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

I'm a longboard guy. ~ Jeff Bridges

I'm not counting any chickens. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

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

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

I'm kind of an idea guy. ~ Jeff Bridges

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good. ~ Jeff Bridges

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona. ~ Jeff Bridges

I'm not real good at romance. ~ Jeff Bridges

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

We love things that are convenient. ~ Jeff Bridges

You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and finally I said "all right, I want you guys to organize a reading and I want you to be there to see how terrible this is not going to work at all", so we had a table like this, and read the script, and it was just great. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

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

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man. ~ Jeff Bridges

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites. ~ Jeff Bridges

I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife. ~ Jeff Bridges

I'm a big fan of country. ~ Jeff Bridges

Words fall short sometimes. ~ Jeff Bridges

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

A lot of people don't really understand what rehearsal's about. People are afraid they're gonna leave it in the dressing room, or you're gonna shoot your wad in rehearsal. ~ Jeff Bridges

I never read reviews of something I want to see. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

I love marriage. ~ Jeff Bridges

You can change things, you can make things better. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

Let's drive our
Volvo into a brick wall to make

Rosie Perez feel better. ~ Donora A. Rihn

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. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

You don't really have to do the things that your character is doing. But us actors, we use something called sense memory. I've certainly been drunk before, and part of my job is to recall that without getting drunk. ~ Jeff Bridges

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

I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work. ~ Jeff Bridges