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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Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

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

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 ...

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.

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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.

Jeff Bridges

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

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

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It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

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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.

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

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

Jeff Bridges

One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to happen, and it's certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expect...

Jeff Bridges

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

Jeff Bridges

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

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My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

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I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

Jeff Bridges

Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.

Jeff Bridges

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

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People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

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We love things that are convenient.

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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.

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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