Quotes from Jeff Bridges

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.

There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

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.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

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!

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

As an actor, a role can be a great excuse not to be in shape. I mean, you wouldn't want to see the Dude with a six-pack, so you eat that Haagen-Dazs. My weight goes up and down.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

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

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

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.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

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

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

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

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.