Jeff Bridges Quotes

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.

We love things that are convenient.

Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

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.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

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

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.

Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.

We're here for such a short period of time.

Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.

Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.

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.

I haven't been to Comic-Con.

I don't really care about having more fame than I have.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

I'm a pretty basic surfer.

I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.

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

Words fall short sometimes.

Mania is a wonderful feeling.

If you're married you'll have tough times.

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.

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

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that...

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

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.

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.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I never read reviews of something I want to see.

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

I want to have all of my faculties.