Quotes from Jeff Bridges

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.

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

Often when I finish a film I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.' And then, thank God, that feeling goes away after a month or so and I'm raring to go again.

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

Life's picking up speed.

About 25 years ago, my wife and I bought Kenny Loggins' house in Santa Barbara. It was way out of our price range, but we said, 'Screw it, let's go for it.' We've raised our family there. We overextended ourselves at the perfect time in our lives, and it worked out for the best.

To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.

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.

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.

As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.

Women are so - maybe this is just a male perspective, but for my money, they're so connected to life in a way that men aren't. They're able to give birth, have children, and it's literally a part of them. They perhaps have a stronger capacity for caring than males.

Mania is a wonderful feeling.

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.