Quotes from Jeff Bridges

I resist life.

I'm not real good at romance.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?

I'm a pretty basic surfer.

My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.

The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.

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.

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

When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.

In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.

Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.

I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I'm so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I'm just madly in love with.

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

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.

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

I like to know where the camera is.