Jeff Bridges Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

"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.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

I have my prized possession in my wallet. That's a photograph of the first words I ever uttered to my wife, and her answer to my question when I asked her, "Will you go out with me?"

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

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.

I'm a big fan of country.

I'm not counting any chickens.

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.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

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

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.

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.

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.

Life's picking up speed.

Movies are very subjective.

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

I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.

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

I do a lot of ceramics.

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.

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

I like to know where the camera is.

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

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

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

People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

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

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

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

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

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

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.

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

My mom wasn't a movie star.

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

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

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