Quotes from Jeff Bridges

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

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

Movies are like magic tricks.

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

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

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.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

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.

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

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

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

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 seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.