Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges
Jeffrey Leon "Jeff" Bridgesis an American actor, singer and producer. He comes from a prominent acting family, and appeared on the television series Sea Hunt, with his father, Lloyd Bridges and brother, Beau Bridges. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart, and earned Academy Award nominations for his roles in The Last Picture Show, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Starman, The Contenderand True Grit. His other films include...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 December 1949
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
I want to have all of my faculties.
I'm a big fan of country.
I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.
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!"
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.
I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
You have that Frank Capra kind of side to it and the characters are really well drawn, so I think everybody tried their best to stay faithful to the script.
I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.
I never read reviews of something I want to see.
I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
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.