Quotes by Jeff Bridges

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isnt so good.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which Ive done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.

Movies are like magic tricks.

So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes youll have a movie that youre very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesnt come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.

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

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but its all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

Sticking with a marriage. Thats true grit, man.

I love John Irvings stuff. Its that marriage of comedy and tragedy. Its really terrific.

I dont 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.

I love marriage.

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

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.

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.

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

My mom wasnt a movie star.

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

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps its because Ive 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.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I dont think you get the richness thats available in a long-term relationship.