Top 100 Jeff Bridges Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Execution is everything.”

— Jeff Bridges

2. “I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.”

— Jeff Bridges

3. “Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.”

— Jeff Bridges

4. “A fool and his money are quickly parted.”

— Jeff Bridges

5. “I’m kind of an idea guy.”

— Jeff Bridges

6. “My brother’s my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.”

— Jeff Bridges

7. “Words fall short sometimes.”

— Jeff Bridges

8. “Always maintain a joyful mind. Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.”

— Jeff Bridges

9. “Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.”

— Jeff Bridges

10. “You just have to work with your discomfort. It’s challenging, but you have to dance the dance that the band’s playing. You can’t say: “I came here to Cha Cha and they’re playing a Waltz, godammit!””

— Jeff Bridges

11. “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.”

— Jeff Bridges

12. “Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don’t know if that’s the proper definition, but that’s the way I’m going to hold it in my mind.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

14. “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.”

— Jeff Bridges

15. “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

16. “You’ve got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don’t forget, wherever you are, that’s the goal line.”

— Jeff Bridges

17. “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.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

19. “You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can’t fully realize it until you have children yourself.”

— Jeff Bridges

20. “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

21. “Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.”

— Jeff Bridges

22. “If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

24. “Well that’s like, your opinion, man.”

— Jeff Bridges

25. “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.”

— Jeff Bridges

26. “I don’t have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.”

— Jeff Bridges

27. “You don’t want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is – that didn’t isn’t right.”

— Jeff Bridges

28. “Mania is a wonderful feeling.”

— Jeff Bridges

29. “It can kind of screw up things if you’re trying to overwork something.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

31. “There’s kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It’s kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.”

— Jeff Bridges

32. “I do a lot of ceramics.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

34. “I’m a pretty basic surfer.”

— Jeff Bridges

35. “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.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

37. “You don’t want to vilify your ego.”

— Jeff Bridges

38. “It’s like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you’re not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.”

— Jeff Bridges

39. “You can change things, you can make things better.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

41. “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

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

— Jeff Bridges

43. “I’ve got to watch my back, so I can’t put on too much weight.”

— Jeff Bridges

44. “I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.”

— Jeff Bridges

45. “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

46. “A lot of people don’t really understand what rehearsal’s about. People are afraid they’re gonna leave it in the dressing room, or you’re gonna shoot your wad in rehearsal.”

— Jeff Bridges

47. “Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I’d be used to it after all these years, but it’s like it’s happening for the first time.”

— Jeff Bridges

48. “As far as 3-D goes, I don’t know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.”

— Jeff Bridges

49. “There are some actors that want you to call them by their character’s name and they have no relationship with you outside of the character. But I like to get to know who I’m working with so that we can relax together, and it’s more fun.”

— Jeff Bridges

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50. “I’ve never been motivated by the award thing. There’s a certain thing that this fame thing does that makes my job harder, in a way. I’m still working with that. I don’t think about it too much until somebody asks me a question, and then I think about it.”

— Jeff Bridges