Jeff Bridges Quotes

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Do we really need to arm our citizens with machine guns or semiautomatic weapons? And don't we need to make sure that people who do own guns are qualified to own them?

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Need, Guns, Sure, Qualified

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

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I Remember, Going, Set, Colour

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

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Work, My Life, Away, Sue

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.

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Technology, Love-Hate, Electric Light

I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.

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Sense Of Humor, Had, Liverpool

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

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Work, Through, Might, Observations

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

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Me, Young, Classes, Dance Classes

I never read reviews of something I want to see.

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Never, See, Read, Reviews

The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

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Fickle, Like, Accurate, Mistress

The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy - put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns, and my dad loved to ride.

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Father, Dress, Dad, Bridges

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.

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Thought, Role, Very, Bridges

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.

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TV, Importance, TV Show, Bridges

We love things that are convenient.

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Love, Things, Convenient

I really try my best not to get attached to a script, because I know what it takes: It takes you away from your family and what you like to do.

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Best, Away, Like, Attached

There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, that are preventable. So many guns that are left loaded, unlocked. So you can educate. That doesn't seem to be too controversial - education.

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Country, Guns, Reasons, Preventable

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

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Lucky, Been, Very, First-Time

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

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Ideas, Kind, Directors, First-Time

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.

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I Think, Leading, Roles, Different Roles

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.

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Focus, Other, Very, Purposeful

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.

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Tell, Very, Instance, Portray

We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.

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Violent, Roll, About, Move Forward

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

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Love, Doing, Here, Showbiz

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.

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Show, Use, Bottles, Specify

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

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King, Like, Unless, Treating

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

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Change, Through, Individual, Taking

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.

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Cynicism, Been, Protecting, Shell

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

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Changes, Always, Having, Hear People

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.

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Love, Precious, Spreads, Object

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.

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Rest, World, More, Emptiness

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.

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Achieve, Deal, Zen, Emptiness

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