Jeff Bridges Quotes

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

Always maintain a joyful mind. Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.

When you truly commit in your life, you start receiving more than you could imagine.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

You just have to work with your discomfort. ... It’s challenging, but you have to dance the dance that the band’s playing. You can’t say: “I came here to Cha Cha and they’re playing a Waltz, godammit!”

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.

If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go.

A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see, and then....one day....I got in!

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

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.

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.

You can change things, you can make things better.

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

We would do improvisation together. And that in a way, had almost a "student-film side" where we'd be sitting there with Robert Downey and Jon Favreau and we're playing around, we're jamming around and we read those pages and in next couple of days that's what we do, so it was a good experience. Kind of frightening at first because you didn't quite know how it was going to work out, but they had some very talented people there so it worked out well.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.