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
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.
Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.
I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.
I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
I've lost three of my buddies. Three of them died, and I'm the one who survived. They weren't just co-workers, they were my friends.
I've always tried to mix up my roles as much as I can.
But it's tough what we're doing here -- selling a movie. I like to know to as little as possible about movies that I'm interested in seeing.
I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.
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.
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.
One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.