Making a film, it uses a certain… ‘pretend-muscle,’ I don’t know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested. – Jeff Bridges
Often when I finish a film I’ll have that feeling inside me: ‘I never want to do this ever again. I don’t want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.’ And then, thank God, that feeling goes away after a month or so and I’m raring to go again. – Jeff Bridges
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. – Jeff Bridges
I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there’s some redundancy in that. – Jeff Bridges
In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn’t have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was. – Jeff Bridges
It’s wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can’t pay it back? – Jeff Bridges
I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography. – Jeff Bridges
The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels. – Jeff Bridges
Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don’t know if it’s a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by. – Jeff Bridges
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. – Jeff Bridges
As far as Beau is concerned, we’re on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he’s very content. – Jeff Bridges
As far as 3-D goes, I don’t know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly. – Jeff Bridges
I hate it when there’s a good movie, someone overhypes it and I’m disappointed that I don’t like it more. – Jeff Bridges
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
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. – Jeff Bridges
Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us. – Jeff Bridges
As filmmakers, we’re constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we’re telling. – Jeff Bridges