Quotes from Jeff Bridges

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.

My father Lloyd Bridges worked on a TV show called 'Sea Hunt.' He impressed upon me as a child the importance of taking care of the ocean and working together to do our part to reduce human pollution.

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.

I said I'm going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything's workable. If Trump is president, I'll work with that guy. I don't know if he's terrible or what. He's refreshing in that he doesn't speak in that political way. I don't quite understand why everybody hates Hillary so much.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

It's the same assignment on every part: you want to create a real world, and the tone of it is a little different on each movie. 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.

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

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.

We're here for such a short period of time.

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

Directing takes a lot of time.

I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood.

You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.

Every couple of years we'll watch the movie and it's like watching home movies, seeing the ranch on-screen. But that movie Heaven's Gate, people are appreciating it more and more as time goes on.

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.