388 Quotes by Jeff Bridges

Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

We love things that are convenient.

I've done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it's very hard to follow all these stories. You end up not caring about any of the people and I thought that would be the case in this film, and you had these big speeches for each character, you know, it's like "God that's how you'll have to cut that down in order to paste it all", to edit the movie and my representatives could say "no, you really you ought to check it out.

I'm a pretty basic surfer.

Movies are like magic tricks.

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

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.

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.