Top 100 Jeff Bridges Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I want to have all of my faculties.”

— Jeff Bridges

52. “Play doesn’t have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it’s still being played. I think Oscar Wilde said that life is too important to be taken seriously.”

— Jeff Bridges

53. “So I have this word for much of what I do in life: ‘plorking.’ I’m not playing and I’m not working, I’m plorking.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

55. “Well, when we made ‘Tron’ there was no internet, no cellphones.”

— Jeff Bridges

56. “One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you’re constantly surprised. You never know what’s going to happen, and it’s certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.”

— Jeff Bridges

57. “I know how to dance with the wind, I can use its power by sailing this way, then that way, and again this way, till finally I get to you. With rowing, you’re working primarily with your arms and shoulders. But with sailing, you’re making bigger use of the wind and the waves.”

— Jeff Bridges

58. “Myths are wonderful – they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.”

— Jeff Bridges

59. “If you’re married you’ll have tough times.”

— Jeff Bridges

60. “My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the ’60s ‘Sea Hunt,’ where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.”

— Jeff Bridges

61. “We’re here for such a short period of time.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

63. “I don’t really think in career terms.”

— Jeff Bridges

64. “Obviously it’s fun to let yourself go and eat a pint of Haagen Dazs, but being healthy feels the best. Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.”

— Jeff Bridges

65. “You don’t really have to do the things that your character is doing. But us actors, we use something called sense memory. I’ve certainly been drunk before, and part of my job is to recall that without getting drunk.”

— Jeff Bridges

66. “Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I’m a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I’d done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.”

— Jeff Bridges

67. “Well, I’m not a big sports fan.”

— Jeff Bridges

68. “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

69. “There’s a bit of the kid in me.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

72. “During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn’t do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.”

— Jeff Bridges

73. “As you become famous you lose some of your anonymity, which is wonderful for an actor to have because you can observe people and also people don’t have such a strong sense of who you are and that sort of thing.”

— Jeff Bridges

74. “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.”

— Jeff Bridges

75. “Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there’s a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.”

— Jeff Bridges

76. “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.”

— Jeff Bridges

77. “Pretend was a big part of my childhood.”

— Jeff Bridges

78. “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.”

— Jeff Bridges

79. “I think we’re all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.”

— Jeff Bridges

80. “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.”

— Jeff Bridges

81. “I notice that when I’m generous, accepting, and loving toward myself, all that’s reflected out into the world. The more I cut myself slack, the more I don’t judge myself for not being other than I am, the more I’m aware of who I am, see it, honor it, and respect it, the more I do all those things for others. I push them less and I respect their different rhythms.”

— Jeff Bridges

82. “Some people say you have to work with everything, but there’s a time and a place. If it feels like a knot, wait. It will come up again when you and the universe are ready.”

— Jeff Bridges

83. “I’ve done several commercials and I’ve done voiceovers for documentaries.”

— Jeff Bridges

84. “Like most kids, you don’t want to do what your folks want you to do. You’ve got your own thing.”

— Jeff Bridges

85. “I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!”

— Jeff Bridges

86. “Like most of the movies I get involved with, I resisted as long as possible, I really try to figure out why I shouldn’t do it and this one had plenty of reasons “not to do it”.”

— Jeff Bridges

87. “I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.”

— Jeff Bridges

88. “That movie, ‘Airplane!,’ what a landmark film it was. It’s a great, great movie.”

— Jeff Bridges

89. “I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.”

— Jeff Bridges

90. “I’ve worked with a lot of kids, and when you’re working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.”

— Jeff Bridges

91. “I’m at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.”

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Jeff Bridges

93. “I don’t really care about having more fame than I have.”

— Jeff Bridges

94. “It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.”

— Jeff Bridges

95. “I look back at my filmography, and I’m pretty jazzed with the stuff I’ve been part of. They’re all movies I’d like to see.”

— Jeff Bridges

96. “I’d done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.”

— Jeff Bridges

97. “I haven’t been to Comic-Con.”

— Jeff Bridges

98. “You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible – the Zen thing – to let the deal come out of that nothing.”

— Jeff Bridges

99. “The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.”

— Jeff Bridges

100. “I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.”

— Jeff Bridges