01c. 1950 ADI 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.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
02c. 1950 ADI come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
03c. 1950 ADThat's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
04c. 1950 ADI have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
05c. 1950 ADMy mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
07c. 1950 ADThe more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
08c. 1950 ADFor 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.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
09c. 1950 ADWhenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
10c. 1950 ADMy brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
11c. 1950 ADEating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
13c. 1950 ADMy photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
15c. 1950 ADSo 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.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
16c. 1950 ADBasically, 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.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
17c. 1950 ADMaking 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.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
19c. 1950 ADI love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
20c. 1950 ADI 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.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
22c. 1950 ADIn a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
23c. 1950 ADTechnology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
24c. 1950 ADNormally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.Jeff Bridges / quote ↗
