Jeff Bridges Quotes

I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.

~ Jeff Bridges

I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.

~ Jeff Bridges

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

~ Jeff Bridges

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

~ 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

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

~ Jeff Bridges

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

~ 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

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

~ Jeff Bridges

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

~ Jeff Bridges

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

~ Jeff Bridges

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

~ Jeff Bridges

My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.

~ Jeff Bridges

Movies are like magic tricks.

~ Jeff Bridges

So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.

~ Jeff Bridges

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.

~ Jeff Bridges

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

~ Jeff Bridges

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

~ Jeff Bridges

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

~ Jeff Bridges

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

~ Jeff Bridges

I love marriage.

~ Jeff Bridges

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

~ Jeff Bridges

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

~ 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

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

~ Jeff Bridges

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

~ Jeff Bridges

My mom wasn't a movie star.

~ Jeff Bridges

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

~ 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

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

~ Jeff Bridges

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

~ Jeff Bridges

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

~ Jeff Bridges

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

~ Jeff Bridges

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

~ Jeff Bridges

Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.

~ Jeff Bridges

The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy - put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns, and my dad loved to ride.

~ Jeff Bridges