Jeff Bridges Quotes
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I'm a pretty basic surfer.
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To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.
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Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.
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You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
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I'm one of those guys who will drink to, uh, kind of celebrate. I don't drink too much when I'm down or anything like that. But you've really got to be, I guess the word that came to mind is "creative," about the way you're celebrating. You want to keep the celebration going. I've learned that lesson over and over. Here on the road there's a lot of cause for celebration, but you just gotta get the damper out a little bit, and you want to keep that governor on. You want to keep your give-a-shitter in kick.
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Play doesn't have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it's still being played. I think Oscar Wilde said that life is too important to be taken seriously.
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Movies are like magic tricks.
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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.
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I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
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I loved working with my brother [Beau] and my father [Lloyd] whenever that happened. I had a wonderful experience making "The Fabulous Baker Boys," which I felt was a great movie, too.
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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?"
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You have that Frank Capra kind of side to it and the characters are really well drawn, so I think everybody tried their best to stay faithful to the script.
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I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.
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I went through a very hairy period. I had a movie where I was going to play Walt Whitman that fell through. At the time, I had grown this huge beard and very long hair. But then, the movie got canceled, I had some other parts, and I currently have very short hair. So, when I look in the mirror, I don't know who I am exactly. It's interesting.
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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.
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Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.
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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.
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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When you truly commit in your life, you start receiving more than you could imagine.
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I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.
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When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes. "Mom, I'm too young to dance," I told her. She kind of forced me, but I ended up loving it, and after the first lesson I came back and said, "Come on, Mom, I'll show you the box step." That introduced me not just to dancing but also to working with someone without having a goal.
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If you're married you'll have tough times.
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I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
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I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
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Taylor Sheridan I think wrote a very good script. It reeked of authenticity. He seemed like a guy who knew what he was talking about and it turned out that Taylor's uncle is a Marshal, so he knew things from that side.
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You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.
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I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.
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I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.
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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.
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I've never been motivated by the award thing. There's a certain thing that this fame thing does that makes my job harder, in a way. I'm still working with that. I don't think about it too much until somebody asks me a question, and then I think about it.
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