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As A Kid, You Want To Be Liked For Who You Are. You Don't Want To Be Liked For Who Your Parents Are. You Don't Want To Get A Job Because Of Who Your Parents Are. You Want To Do It On Your Own, With Your Own Gifts And Your Own Value. So, I Decided To Spare My Kids That And Not Be As Pro-active As My Dad Was.

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As A Kid, You

Jeff Bridges

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As A Kid, You Want To Be Liked For Who You Are. You Don't Want To Be Liked For Who Your Parents Are. You Don't Want To Get A Job Because Of Who Your Parents Are. You Want To Do It On Your Own, With Your Own Gifts And Your Own Value. So, I Decided To Spare My Kids That And Not Be As Pro-active As My Dad Was.

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One In Four Kids In The U.s. Faces Hunger.

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The Oscar Nomination Is Great. It's A Great Pat On The Back. And I Like That.

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I'm At This Time In Life When I Have To Take The Opportunities I Have Left.

Mania Is A Wonderful Feeling.

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.

It's A Wonderful Metaphor, Catching A Wave, For How You Can Look At Other Challenges In Your Life.

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.

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.

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I Hate It When There's A Good Movie, Someone Overhypes It And I'm Disappointed That I Don't Like It More.

Live Like You're Already Dead, Man. Have A Good Time. Do Your Best. Let It All Come Ripping Right Through You.

Public Charities, Foodbanks And Church Pantries Are Doing More Than Ever Before, But They Can't Keep Up With The Need. We Can Never End Hunger Only Through The Wonderful Work Of Local Charities. Like Other Western Democracies, We Must End Our National Problem Of Hunger Through National And Political Leadership. Charity Is Nice For Some Things, But Not As A Way To Feed A Nation. We Don't Protect Our National Security Through Charity, And We Shouldn't Protect Our Families And Children That Way Either.

Your Part Can Be The King, But Unless People Are Treating You Like Royalty, You Ain't No King, Man.

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A Fool And His Money Are Quickly Parted.

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I'm A Pretty Basic Surfer.

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!

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Sometimes You Feel You're Making Something Really Special And When It Comes Out You Might Still Feel That Way But For Some Reason It Doesn't Get The Audience. So Many Things Have To Come Together To Get A Creatively Successful And Financially Successful Film.

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Directing Takes A Lot Of Time.

Seeing David Mackenzie's Work In "starred Up," I Thought That Was A Wonderful Film.

There's Lots Of Good Movies Where You Feel That The Dialogue Could Be Improvised, But Very Little Was. The "big Lebowski" Was Like That Where People Say "oh, You Know, That Sounds So..." And We'd Always Go Back And Get Every Man, Every Ellipses In There The Way These Guys Write It. Because Not Only Is It Saying What Michael Wants The Character To Say But The Way They All Speak Kind Of Creates This Tone Because It's Not Exactly Real.

People Fall In Love For Mysterious Reasons.

Falling In Love

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.

If Some Crazy Idea Stays In My Head For Long Enough, Then There's No Fighting It. I Just Say, Okay, Let's Go.

I Loved Working With My Brother [beau] And My Father [lloyd] Whenever That Happened. I Had A Wonderful Experience Making "the Fabulous Baker Boys," Which I Felt Was A Great Movie, Too.

I Don't Think I Ever Went Down That Movie Star Path. I Always Enjoy Taking A 90-degree Turn From The Last Thing I Did.

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