Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges

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Few American actors have been quoted as widely as Jeff Bridges (b. 1949), whose insights reach well beyond their original context. Known for his leading man roles in film and television, their words carry the weight of lived experience. We feature 59 quotes from Jeff Bridges spanning Movies, Relationship, Marriage, Work, and Technology, making them one of the most prolific voices in our archive. To get a sense of their style, try: "Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business."

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

— Jeff Bridges

Cool

All Quotes by Jeff Bridges

“Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.”

— Jeff Bridges

Health

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

Relationship

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

Relationship

“Well, I'm not a big sports fan.”

— Jeff Bridges

Sports

“I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.”

— Jeff Bridges

Movies

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

— Jeff Bridges

Mom

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

Age

“I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.”

— Jeff Bridges

Fear

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

Great

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

— Jeff Bridges

Famous

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

— Jeff Bridges

Music

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

— Jeff Bridges

Mom

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

— Jeff Bridges

Marriage

“I love marriage.”

— Jeff Bridges

Marriage

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

Experience

“I'm used to watching old movies of myself.”

— Jeff Bridges

Movies

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

Business

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

Art

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

— Jeff Bridges

Cool

“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.”

— Jeff Bridges

Art