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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)
Directing takes a lot of time. View quote
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Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara. View quote
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Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher. View quote
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I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing. View quote
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You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now. View quote
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Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury. View quote
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Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't have too many plans filled out. I know I want to keep doing more music. I've got a couple of albums worth of songs I'd like to put it out there. As far as movies, I just want to continue how I've been doing it: working with terrific people is certainly on my agenda, and then doing stories that interest me. View quote
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That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie. View quote
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One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona. View quote
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Execution is everything. View quote
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Movies are like magic tricks. (Jeff Bridges)
Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you. View quote
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When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes. View quote
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I'm not counting any chickens. View quote
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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. View quote
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