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Jeff Bridges is a renowned American actor, born on December 4, 1949. Known for his versatile acting style and extensive filmography, he has won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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

Wells Kind All Kinds Gutters

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“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.”

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

Wife My Wife Take Me Santa Barbara Take Me Away Santa Barbara

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“Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.”

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“Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.”

Yeah Rays Bradbury

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“Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.”

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

Writing Song Yeah Teenager Writing Songs

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“Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.”

“One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.”

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“One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.”

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“As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.”

Ifs Way Team Concerned Roots Attractive Teamwork

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“As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.”

Thinking Men Different Roles Romantic Killers Diverse Romantic Love Avoided Persona Latches Psychopathic Typecasting

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“I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.”

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“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.”

People Thinking Together Dark Rooms Emotion Wonderful Theater Bunch Dark Room

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“I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.”

Years Kind Mean Different School Wonderful Perspective Ocean High School Years Ago Quitting Experts Surfing Different Perspective Perspective On Things

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“I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.”

Should Art Film Universe Theory Directors Messages Receiving Manipulative

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“I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.”

Art Character Might Form Artist Actors Great Things Instance Movie Costumes

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“I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.”

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“If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.”

Ifs Knows Okay Lists Like Me Hooked

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“Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.”

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“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. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.”

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“Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.”

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“Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.”

People Shows Seems Actors Campaigns Movie Show Business

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“Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.”

Hard Certain Actors Pay Amount Agree Contracts Publicity

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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.”

Want Feelings Film Months Thank God

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“One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.”

Age Actors Father Doors Feet Tough Hardest Hardest Thing Tough Things

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“Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.”

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“What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.”

People Way Said Father Dad Rose

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“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.”

Together Focus Wife My Wife Acknowledge Midst

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“Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.”

World Looks Real Character Use Might Picks Real Life Observation Filters Might Use

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“Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.”

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“You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.”

Knows Way Firsts Kind Kids Jobs Guy Difficult Directors First Time Shame Block

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“She was this incredible mom. With each of her kids, she did something called `time,' where she would spend an hour each day doing whatever the kid wanted to do, whether it was play spacemen or `Let's go into your makeup, and I'll make you up like a clown.' And as a teenager you'd be like, `Rub me, Mom. Give me a massage.'”

Giving Play Kids Wanted Mother Hours Mom Give Me Incredibles Motherhood Teenager Each Day Makeup Clown Massage

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“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.”

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“One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.”

World Feelings America Individual Goal Differences Knowing Hunger Making A Difference World Hunger Ending Hunger Hunger For Food Food Banks Hunger Awareness Hunger In America Old Feelings

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“Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.”

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

Men Wells Enough Powerful Violence Treats Violence Against Women Stop Violence Against Women

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

Motivation Imagine Commit Receiving

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“Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.”

I Can Turns Interesting Hopeless

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“All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.”

Stuff Difficult Easier

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“When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.”

Kind Process Creative All Kinds Impulse Shakes Creative Process

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“I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood.”

Too Much Hollywood Jam

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“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.”

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“When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.”

Young Class Mom Dance My Mom Dance Class

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

Thinking Mother Mom My Mom

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“I don't really think in career terms.”

Thinking Term Careers

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“A fool and his money are quickly parted.”

Wisdom Wise Fool

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“Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.”

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Source: The Dude and the Zen Master

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

Ifs Long Ideas Enough Fighting Crazy Okay Crazy Ideas

Author:Jeff Bridges

About the Author

Born: December 4, 1949
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 254

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