Jeff Bridges

“There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.”

“You have these big $200 and $300 million movies with special effects, and I've always thought, 'Gee, why don't we make 30 movies instead of one $300 million movie?' Let's shake it up a bit;...”

“I want to have all of my faculties.”

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

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

“Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.”

“One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific act...”

“As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.”

“I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.”

“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.”

“My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too s...”

“Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side.....”

“We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come ou...”

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

“Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!”

“I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.”

“I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.”

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

“I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.”

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