Jeff Bridges Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• 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.

  Jeff Bridges

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jeff Bridges

  Acting, Use, Talent

• I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

  Jeff Bridges

  Careers, Acting, Done

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 13, 2010.

• I understand professionals have to work when they don't feel like it, and I certainly don't feel like it. So maybe this will put the nail in the coffin for my acting career.

  Jeff Bridges

  Acting

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't feel right. But after a while I guess I figured I must be doing something right, because people wouldn't keep hiring me if I didn't have something to give.

  Jeff Bridges

  Father, Kids, People

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview With Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

• Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Thinking, Acting

  "Jeff Bridges' New 'Dude': A Fallen Country Star". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. December 16, 2009.

• I had success as an actor relatively early. When I was 22, I got nominated for an Academy Award for The Last Picture Show, so that road, you know, had the least resistance. I was doing my music all that time, but it's pretty hard to turn down these great movie offers. And my father counseled me; he said, "You know, one of the wonderful things about acting is that you can incorporate all of your interests into the different parts you play." I'm glad I listened to the old man, because that's the way it turned out.

  Jeff Bridges

  Father, Men, Acting

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview With Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

• I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

  Jeff Bridges

  Art, Acting, Painting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Jeff Bridges

  Art, America, Childhood

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

  Jeff Bridges

  Teacher, Brother, Father

• I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

  Jeff Bridges

  Kids, Parent, Acting

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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