Jeff Bridges Quotes, Thoughts and images

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.

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

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

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.

Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

You can change things, you can make things better.

I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.

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

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.

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.

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

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

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

When you're a professional you gotta do it [your job] when you don't feel like doing it.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

Movies are like magic tricks.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.

We love things that are convenient.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

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

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

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

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

I don't have one movie that is my favourite, I have about 25-30 favourites.

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

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

Fame works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

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