“It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.”
Funny
“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.”
DadAll Quotes by Jeff Bridges
“Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.”
Health“In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.”
Movies“I'm used to watching old movies of myself.”
Movies“I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.”
Cool“Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.”
Famous“Movies are very subjective.”
Movies“Movies are like magic tricks.”
Movies“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.”
Art“I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.”
Movies“Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.”
Music“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“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“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.”
Alone“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.”
Relationship“I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.”
Movies“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.”
Fear“I love marriage.”
Marriage“You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.”
Technology“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.”
Dad