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
That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.
My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.
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.
My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.
It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.
My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.
I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.
Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
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.
Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.
I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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.
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.
I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.
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.
Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'
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.
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.
Execution is everything.
Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.
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.
Directing takes a lot of time.
I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
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.
Mania is a wonderful feeling.
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.
When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
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 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.
Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.
Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.
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.
My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.
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.
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.
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
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.
I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.
I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.
I'm used to watching old movies of myself.
I resist 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.
