Jeff Bridges Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Movies are like magic tricks.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

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.

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

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.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

I wish I were more disciplined.

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.

You can change things, you can make things better.

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

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

I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.

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

Execution is everything.

When you're a professional you gotta do it [your job] when you don't feel like doing it.

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

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.

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!

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 remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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