Jeff Bridges
We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.Collection: Best
Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.Collection: Marriage
For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.Collection: Famous
I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.Collection: Dad
When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.Collection: Mom
Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.Collection: Famous
I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.Collection: Humor
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Romantic
Movies are like magic tricks.Collection: Movies
Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.Collection: Health
My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Technology
Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
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.
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.
Execution is everything.
Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
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.
I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.
The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.
I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.
In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
Movies are very subjective.
It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.
Well, I'm not a big sports fan.
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.
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
I'm not counting any chickens.
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.
Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.
I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.
I haven't been to Comic-Con.
To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.
Words fall short sometimes.
My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we've got guns all over the place. It's basically a cold war for individuals: you've got a nuclear bomb, and I've got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.
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.
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 a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.