Quotes by Jeff Bridges

About Jeff Bridges:

Jeffrey Leon is an American actor, singer, and producer. He comes from a well-known acting family and began his televised acting in 1958 as a child with his father, Lloyd Bridges, and brother, Beau, on television's Sea Hunt. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart and earned Academy Award nominations for his roles in The Last Picture Show, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Starman, The Contender, and True Grit. Some of his other better-known films are: The Big Lebowski, Fearless, Iron Man, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds, The Fisher King, Tucker, Seabiscuit, Arlington Road, Tron, Tron: Legacy and The Giver.
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Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

Jeff Bridges

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

Jeff Bridges

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

Jeff Bridges

Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.

Jeff Bridges

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

Jeff Bridges

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

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 d...

Jeff Bridges

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.

Jeff Bridges

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's ...

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

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

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

Jeff Bridges

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.

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

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.

Jeff Bridges

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

Jeff Bridges

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.

Jeff Bridges

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

Jeff Bridges

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJeff Bridges
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, singer-songwriter and producer
  • BornDecember 4, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Singer-songwriter; Singer; Film Producer; Composer; Photographer; Voice Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actor; Donostia Award