Jeff Bridges quotes

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

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

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

— Jeff Bridges

 quotes - People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

“People fall in love for mysterious reasons.”

— Jeff Bridges

“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.”

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

— Jeff Bridges

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

“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

“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

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

“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

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

— 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.”

— Jeff Bridges

“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

“Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.”

— Jeff Bridges

“For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

“We love things that are convenient.”

— Jeff Bridges

“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

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

“Execution is everything.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— 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

“You don't want to vilify your ego.”

— Jeff Bridges

“Life's picking up speed.”

— 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

“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

“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