Explore Quotes by Jeff Bridges

My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.

There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

Making 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.

Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

My 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.

Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.

I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.

I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.

I love to paint, do ceramics, photography. I got a lot of side things that I like to do.

As an actor, a role can be a great excuse not to be in shape. I mean, you wouldn't want to see the Dude with a six-pack, so you eat that Haagen-Dazs. My weight goes up and down.

In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.

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

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.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.