Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges

"Basically, 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."
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"Basically, 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
"So 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
"Movies are like magic tricks."
Jeff Bridges
"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."
Jeff Bridges
"Sobriety and health is the greatest thing."
Jeff Bridges
"Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good."
Jeff Bridges
"My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father."
Jeff Bridges
"Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that."
Jeff Bridges
"For 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
"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."
Jeff Bridges
"Well, I'm not a big sports fan."
Jeff Bridges
"My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation."
Jeff Bridges
"I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself."
Jeff Bridges
"That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes."
Jeff Bridges
"I 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
"I 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
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