Jeff Bridges quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

— 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

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

“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.”

— 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 gotta take notes when things occur to me.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

“Movies are like magic tricks.”

— Jeff Bridges

“My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

“As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.”

— Jeff Bridges

“I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.”

— 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

“Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.”

— Jeff Bridges

“Mania is a wonderful feeling.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

“Words fall short sometimes.”

— Jeff Bridges

“Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.”

— Jeff Bridges

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

“My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.”

— Jeff Bridges

“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.”

— 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