Jeff Bridges Quotes

American - Actor Born: December 4, 1949

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

Change Responsibility World Community

Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.

Life Light Darkness Perfection

My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.

Work Wife Be Kind You

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

Child Poverty Complicated Feeding

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

Children Poor Hungry Kid

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

Man King People You

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

You Way Find Your

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

Good Health Great Ice Cream

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

Myself God Look Back

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

Me Wife Back She

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I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

Look Picture Camera Photography

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

Life Decision My Life Slow

Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

Myself Strong Character Loving

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.

Yourself Space World You

Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

Work Think New Sometimes

My father Lloyd Bridges worked on a TV show called 'Sea Hunt.' He impressed upon me as a child the importance of taking care of the ocean and working together to do our part to reduce human pollution.

Father Sea Me Together

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Life Look You Challenges

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

Good Best Time Live

The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we've got guns all over the place. It's basically a cold war for individuals: you've got a nuclear bomb, and I've got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.

War You Place Doors

Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.

Life Yourself Live Partner

When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.

Way Plastic Band Others

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

You Things Trying Something

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.

Change Thoughts Water Wind

For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.

Love Me Wife Love At First Sight

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Hurt Alive Most Sensitive

Execution is everything.

Everything Execution

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