Jeff Bridges

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I don't 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.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

My mom wasn't a movie star.

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.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.

Movies are like magic tricks.

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

I love marriage.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

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.

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.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat thoughts are no different than anything else.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.

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

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

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

Movies are very subjective.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.