Jeff Bridges movie quotes

“- The Dude: You brought the fuckin' Pomeranian bowling?
- Walter Sobchak: What do you mean brought it bowling, Dude? I didn't rent it shoes. I'm not buying it a fucking beer. He's not taking your fucking turn, Dude.”

Jeff Bridges - The Dude
John Goodman - Walter Sobchak

“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.”
Jeff Bridges

“Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.”
Jeff Bridges

“Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.”
Jeff Bridges

“Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.”
Jeff Bridges

“Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.”
Jeff Bridges

“We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.”
Jeff Bridges

“I told you about these people, they only mate with their own kind, it's called yuppie inbreeding. That's why so many of them are retarded and wear the same clothes. They're not human, they don't feel love, they only negotiate *love moments*. They're evil, they're repulsed by imperfection, horrified by the banal, everything that America stands...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jeff Bridges - Jack

He only saw a man alone and in pain. And he asked the king "What ails you friend?" The king replied "I'm thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat". So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king. As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed. He looked in his hands and there was the... (continue)(continue reading)

Jeff Bridges - Parry

“- Jenny Hayden: What's it like up there?
- Starman: It is beautiful. Not like this, but it is beautiful. There is only one language, one law, one people. There is no war, no hunger. The strong do not victimize the helpless. We are very civilized, but we have lost something, I think. You are all so much alive, all so different. I will miss the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Karen Allen - Jenny Hayden
Jeff Bridges - Starman

“You can't run from the wind. You trim your sails, face the music, and keep going.”
Jeff Bridges - Sheldon 'Skipper'

“- Mark Shermin: Have people from your world been here before?
- Starman: Before yes. We are interested in your species.
- Mark Shermin: You mean you're some kind of anthropologist? Is that what you're doing here? Just checking us out?
- Starman: You are a strange species. Not like any other. And you'd be surprised how many there are. Intelligent...” (continue)(continue reading)
Charles Martin Smith - Mark Shermin
Jeff Bridges - Starman

“On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.”

Jeff Bridges - Kevin Flynn

“Everybody looses a couple, and you either pack up and go home or keep fighting.”
Jeff Bridges - Charles Howard

“- Jesus Quintana: Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes click.
- The Dude: Jesus.
- Jesus Quintana: You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.”
John Turturro - Jesus Quintana
Jeff Bridges - The Dude

“It's important to think. It's what separates us from lentils.”
Jeff Bridges - Jack

“If we don't have order, we have nothing. Where we go one, we go all.”
Jeff Bridges - Sheldon 'Skipper'

“Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.”
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“Marcus Hamilton-Oh, who knows. Maybe one of these bank robbers is gonna want a gunfight and I can dodge my retirement in a blaze of glory.
Alberto Parker-Well, I've seen you shoot. There won't be much glory in it.”
Jeff Bridges - Marcus Hamilton
Gil Birmingham - Alberto Parker

“Marcus Hamilton-I know their faces was covered, but could you tell their race? Black, white?
Elsie-Their skin or their souls?”
Jeff Bridges - Marcus Hamilton
Dale Dickey - Elsie

“He wouldn't know God if he crawled up his pant leg and bit him on the pecker.”

Jeff Bridges - Marcus Hamilton

“Marcus Hamilton-This is what they call white man's intuition.
Alberto Parker-Sometimes a blind pig finds a truffle.”
Jeff Bridges - Marcus Hamilton
Gil Birmingham - Alberto Parker

“Miles, I fell down. I'm old. Shit happens, get the whiskey.”
Jeff Bridges - Father Daniel Flynn

“- Father Daniel Flynn: I'm not really a priest.
- Darlene Sweet: Yeah, no shit.”
Jeff Bridges - Father Daniel Flynn
Cynthia Erivo - Darlene Sweet

“- Cross-examining Lawyer: Mister Cogburn, in your four years as US Marshal, how many men have you shot?
- Rooster Cogburn: Shot? Or killed?
- Cross-examining Lawyer: Let us restrict it to killed so we may have a manageable figure!”
Joe Stevens - Cross-examining Lawyer
Jeff Bridges - Rooster Cogburn