Jeff Bridges quotes:

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.

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

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 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.

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

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

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 think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

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.

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

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

I'm not locked into playing one guy.

I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.

My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.

To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

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.

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

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

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.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

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.

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.

We're here for such a short period of time.

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've 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.

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

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 like people.

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.

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.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

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.

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.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

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.

Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.

Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.

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

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

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

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.

People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.

Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

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 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.

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.

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

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

Words fall short sometimes.

I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.

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

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

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.

There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.

Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

I do a lot of ceramics.

I haven't been to Comic-Con.

If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

Well, Thanksgiving we'll all gather at my house for dinner and we usually do Christmas at Beau's house. My mom is still feisty and kicking. She's 92. I saw her last night and she published a book at 90. It's a wonderful book called "You Caught Me Kissing" and it's basically love-poems that she wrote for my dad. It's more than that, it's a wonderful book.

You don't really have to do the things that your character is doing. But us actors, we use something called sense memory. I've certainly been drunk before, and part of my job is to recall that without getting drunk.

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

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

Generally speaking, I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and ... often the material is more unusual, but in Iron Man it was kind of both worlds colliding because there was a lot of improvisation not to, that we had problems with the scenes, but to discover the actual scenes themselves.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

Movies are like magic tricks.

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.

The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

Life's picking up speed.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

You just have to work with your discomfort. It's challenging, but you have to dance the dance that the band's playing. You can't say: "I came here to Cha Cha and they're playing a Waltz, godammit!"

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.

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.

I'm not counting any chickens.