Quotes from Jeff Bridges

The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we've got guns all over the place. It's basically a cold war for individuals: you've got a nuclear bomb, and I've got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.

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.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.

I understand professionals have to work when they don't feel like it, and I certainly don't feel like it. So maybe this will put the nail in the coffin for my acting career.

Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.

Movies are very subjective.

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.

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.

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

I really try my best not to get attached to a script, because I know what it takes: It takes you away from your family and what you like to do.

My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

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 out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.

You can change things, you can make things better.

Execution is everything.

I'm not locked into playing one guy.