Quotes from Jeff Bridges

If you're married you'll have tough times.

The toughest thing about making movies is being apart from your family. One of the things I try my best to do is call my wife every day to keep up to speed with what's going on in her life. And tell her what's going on with mine.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.

People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

Just a couple of minutes ago, I signed a couple of bowling pins for some people. That's a normal thing. Somebody will hand me something and say, 'Draw a picture! Draw the Dude!' They're probably selling them on eBay or something.

I don't even know what Instagram is, 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.

Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

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

Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to happen, and it's certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.

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

I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.

We love things that are convenient.

For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

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

As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.

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.

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.

Movies are like magic tricks.

I don't dig Trump or follow what he has to say, but I find it fascinating that he's surfaced in the political arena. But I'm a Hillary supporter, and I don't go the Trump way.

Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.