Jeff Bridges Quotes

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Jeff Bridges

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 4, 1949

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

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Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

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I like to know where the camera is.

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

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

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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.

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I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I'm so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I'm just madly in love with.

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I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

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It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?

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I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

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This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

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I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

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The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we've got guns all over the place. It's basically a cold war for individuals: you've got a nuclear bomb, and I've got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.

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

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Movies are very subjective.

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I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

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It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

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

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I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

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