Jeff Bridges movie quotes

“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.”
Jeff Bridges

“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.”
Jeff Bridges

“Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.”
Jeff Bridges

“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.”
Jeff Bridges

“Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.”
Jeff Bridges

“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.”
Jeff Bridges

“- Jenny Hayden: What's it like up there?
- Starman: It is beautiful. Not like this, but it is beautiful. There is only one language, one law, one people. There is no war, no hunger. The strong do not victimize the helpless. We are very civilized, but we have lost something, I think. You are all so much alive, all so different. I will miss the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Karen Allen - Jenny Hayden
Jeff Bridges - Starman

“- Mark Shermin: Have people from your world been here before?
- Starman: Before yes. We are interested in your species.
- Mark Shermin: You mean you're some kind of anthropologist? Is that what you're doing here? Just checking us out?
- Starman: You are a strange species. Not like any other. And you'd be surprised how many there are. Intelligent...” (continue)(continue reading)
Charles Martin Smith - Mark Shermin
Jeff Bridges - Starman

“Everybody looses a couple, and you either pack up and go home or keep fighting.”
Jeff Bridges - Charles Howard

“- Jesus Quintana: Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes click.
- The Dude: Jesus.
- Jesus Quintana: You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.”
John Turturro - Jesus Quintana
Jeff Bridges - The Dude

“It's important to think. It's what separates us from lentils.”
Jeff Bridges - Jack

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

“Miles, I fell down. I'm old. Shit happens, get the whiskey.”
Jeff Bridges - Father Daniel Flynn

“- Father Daniel Flynn: I'm not really a priest.
- Darlene Sweet: Yeah, no shit.”
Jeff Bridges - Father Daniel Flynn
Cynthia Erivo - Darlene Sweet

“- Cross-examining Lawyer: Mister Cogburn, in your four years as US Marshal, how many men have you shot?
- Rooster Cogburn: Shot? Or killed?
- Cross-examining Lawyer: Let us restrict it to killed so we may have a manageable figure!”
Joe Stevens - Cross-examining Lawyer
Jeff Bridges - Rooster Cogburn

“You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?”

Jeff Bridges - Obadiah Stane

“- Starman: I thought guns make you a little bit jumpy.
- Jenny Hayden: You make me a little bit jumpy.”
Jeff Bridges - Starman
Karen Allen - Jenny Hayden

“- Master Gregory: Liquids. Needed to ward off evil spirits.
- Tom Ward: Fermented liquids?
- Master Gregory: Lest I forgot, pick up grease, salt, flour, and bacon.
- Tom Ward: I'm starting to wish I was a sixth son.”

Jeff Bridges - Master Gregory
Ben Barnes - Tom Ward

“- Dr. Mark Powell: What would you say if I told you I think you're as human as I am?
- Prot: I would say you're in need of a thorazine drip, Doctor.”
Jeff Bridges - Dr. Mark Powell
Kevin Spacey - Prot

“- Barney Cousins: What's this? Wuthering Heights? Denise, is it not sufficient that while you shall be at peace, I shall ride in the torments of hell?
- Denise Cousins: ... It's romantic.
- Barney Cousins: If they can put it in a book it's not romantic. Romance has to be secret.”
Jeff Bridges - Barney Cousins
Maggie Linderman - Denise Cousins

“Ladies and gentlemen of this Congress, it pains my soul to tell you that you have brought blood and shame under this great dome.”
Jeff Bridges - President Jackson Evans

“- Tom Ward: [sniffs a flask and retches] That is disgusting. What does that kill?
- Master Gregory: [drinks from the flask] Cowardice.”
Ben Barnes - Tom Ward
Jeff Bridges - Master Gregory

“Son, I've played sick, drunk, divorced, and on the run. Bad Blake hasn't missed a goddamn show in his whole fucking life.”

Jeff Bridges - Bad Blake

“- Turner Kendall: Never did see that damn trick done right.
- Alex Sternbergen: And you never will.
- Turner Kendall: Whatever makes you happy.
- Alex Sternbergen: You, oh you make me happy.”

Jeff Bridges - Turner Kendall
Jane Seymour Fonda - Alex Sternbergen

“God damn you Walter! You fuckin' asshole! Everything's a fuckin' travesty with you, man! And what was all that shit about Vietnam? What the fuck has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the fuck are you talking about?”

Jeff Bridges - The Dude