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
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.
My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.
Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.
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'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.
I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.
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.
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.
I'm used to watching old movies of myself.
I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.
Movies are very subjective.
Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.