Jeff Bridges movie quotes

“Did you ever hear of a guy called Nietzsche? He had a name for us: the bungled and the botched. People who get close to greatness then fall short. You be a good kid, my Italian friend, say no to drugs.”

Jeff Bridges - Jack

“The horse is too small, the jockey too big, the trainer too old, and I'm too dumb to know the difference.”
Jeff Bridges - Charles Howard

“- Walter Sobchak: I'm perfectly calm, Dude.
- The Dude: Yeah, waving the fucking gun around?
- Walter Sobchak: Calmer than you are.
- The Dude: Will you just take it easy?
- Walter Sobchak: Calmer than you are.”
John Goodman - Walter Sobchak
Jeff Bridges - The Dude

“- Kevin Flynn: Hey Ram, what were you, you know, before?
- Ram: I was an actuarial program. Worked for a big insurance company. It really gives you a great feeling helping folks plan for their future needs. Of course, if you take the payments as an annuity over the years, the cost is really quite minimal.”
Jeff Bridges - Kevin Flynn
Dan Shor - Ram

“- Frank Baker: You hit me!
- Jack Baker: I told you I was gonna hit you.”
Beau Bridges - Frank Baker
Jeff Bridges - Jack Baker

“No no, little boy! We mustn't sit on the chair. Do you know why? Because this is a priceless, irreplaceable piece of fine art from another millennium. And you... are a not-quite-formed, piece of temporary plasmic rubbish taking up space on this already overcrowded planet!”

Jeff Bridges - Rupert

“- Barney Cousins: You don't care if she's alive or dead anymore.
- Jeff Harriman: Yes, I do.
- Barney Cousins: No, you don't. You're just scared that without the search you won't know who you are. Who is Jeff Harriman, if he's not the guy looking for Diane? Can you really walk away from finally knowing the answer?”
Jeff Bridges - Barney Cousins
Kiefer Sutherland - Jeff Harriman

“- Lester Marlow: Marylou likes excitement. She says I'm not exciting any more.
- Duane: Well, it's hard to stay exciting for a whole lifetime.”
Randy Quaid - Lester Marlow
Jeff Bridges - Duane Jackson

Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or... His Dudeness, or, uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

Jeff Bridges - The Dude

“Like the man says, there's no problems, only solutions.”
Jeff Bridges - Kevin Flynn

“- Jacy: It's ironic you broke all your ribs right before the Adam and Eve skit. I wonder what a psychiatrist would make of that.
- Duane: I din't break all my ribs, I just broke three.
- Jacy: That doesn't affect the irony, honey-pie.”
Cybill Lynne Shepherd - Jacy Farrow
Jeff Bridges - Duane Jackson

“- Jack Baker: Listen to me, princess. We fucked twice. That's it. Once the sweat dries, you still don't know shit about me. Got it?
- Susie Diamond: I know one thing. While Frank Baker was home putting his kids to sleep last night, little brother Jack was out dusting off his dreams for a few minutes. I was there. I saw it in your face. You're...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeff Bridges - Jack Baker
Michelle Pfeiffer - Susie Diamond

“- Jeff Harriman: I just want to know what happened to Diane.
- Barney Cousins: Then you'll want to listen to the story, and you'll want to listen carefully because sometimes the Devil is in the details.”
Kiefer Sutherland - Jeff Harriman
Jeff Bridges - Barney Cousins

I know you think restoring this cabin is a crazy idea, but what if it's not? What if I'm learning about myself as I go, realizing that if I can do this, I can do anything? So I take a step, I think "Is this crazy? Should I stop?". Then I think "Not yet, there's always time to turn back if I want so", I take another step... and another... and... (continue)(continue reading)
Jeff Bridges - Barney Cousins

“I'll die before Shelly Runyon checkmates me.”
Jeff Bridges - President Jackson Evans

“- Jessie Wyler: Would you like a drink?
- Terry Brogan: Alright, that'd be great.
- Jessie Wyler: Is tequila okay?”
Rachel Ward - Jessie Wyler
Jeff Bridges - Terry Brogan

“- James 'Jimmy' Dove: God damn you, Gaerity! Look what you've done!
- Ryan Gaerity: You've got me all wrong. I'm not a destroyer... I'm a creator.”

Jeff Bridges - Dove
Tommy Lee Jones - Gaerity

“- Starman: What is kid-nap-ped?
- Jenny Hayden: You want to know what kidnapped is? It's being dragged out of your house in the middle of the night by some... whatever you are... being forced to drive all night with a gun pointed at your side and not knowing where you're going or what's going to happen to you when you get there. So if you're...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeff Bridges - Starman
Karen Allen - Jenny Hayden

“They asked you what you stand for. You tell them you stand for blowing up families. For orphan sons. Your father really killed himself, you son of a bitch? Or is that just where you got your start?”

Jeff Bridges - Michael Faraday

“- Susie Diamond: Make any resolutions?
- Jack Baker: No, you?
- Susie Diamond: Nah, I figure all that stuff's a bunch of crap, anyway. You do what you do, right?”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Susie Diamond
Jeff Bridges - Jack Baker

“It's one thing to take an interest in your fellow patients. It's quite another to make you think that you can cure them.”
Jeff Bridges - Dr. Mark Powell

“- Oliver Lang: They'll pay for their sins. Their lies.
- Michael Faraday: You're killing children! Children die!
- Oliver Lang: Children... I know that. This is war, Michael. In a war, children die.”
Tim Robbins - Oliver Lang
Jeff Bridges - Michael Faraday

“- Jack Kelson: I gotta turn this around. Get some money quick.
- Charlotte: How are ya going to do that?
- Jack Kelson: Oh I got my ways.
- Charlotte: Are we going back to jailhouse correspondence?”
Jeff Bridges - Jack Kelson
Lucinda Jenney - Charlotte

“- John L. Bridges: It's getting dangerous to be poor in this country.
- James Averill: It always was.”

Jeff Bridges - John L. Bridges
Kris Kristofferson - James Averill

- Buford Pope: I know you're in what they call "financial straits". So why don't you let my boys here set fire to that dump of yours? That way, at least you'll collect on the fire insurance. All you have to do is hand over the map.
- Vernon Hightower: I appreciate that, but that won't do me no good now. See, I let the insurance lapse about a... (continue)(continue reading)
Rip Torn - Buford Pope
Jeff Bridges - Vernon Hightower