Quotes

“I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.” Jeff Bridges

“I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.” Jeff Bridges

“It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.” Jeff Bridges

“I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.” Jeff Bridges

“I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.” Jeff Bridges

“Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.” Jeff Bridges

“I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.” Jeff Bridges

“I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.” Jeff Bridges

“Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.” Jeff Bridges

“My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.” Jeff Bridges

“As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.” Jeff Bridges

“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.” Lauren Bacall

“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.” Lauren Bacall

“A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?” Lauren Bacall

“I am not a has-been. I am a will be.” Lauren Bacall

“When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.” Lauren Bacall

“You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.” Lauren Bacall

“Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.” Lauren Bacall

“I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.” Lauren Bacall

“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.” Lauren Bacall

“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.” Lauren Bacall

“I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.” Lauren Bacall

“I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'” Lauren Bacall

“Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.” Lauren Bacall

“I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!” Lauren Bacall

“I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.” Lauren Bacall

“You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.” Lauren Bacall

“I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.” Lauren Bacall

“I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.” Lauren Bacall

“It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.” Lauren Bacall