Jeff Bridges Quotes

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I've done in another movie. I really enjoy that.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

'Cuckoo's Nest' was my first film, and I had wanted to do film for some time, but somehow I had not clicked. I would go in for interviews or readings, and I never had the sense that I was anywhere near what they were looking for.

I think everyone has different challenges as a young actress in Hollywood.

I have an agent and everything. I audition occasionally.

Thank God for television. I've been able to consistently work in television even when people say, 'Oh my God, I haven't seen you since this film or that project.' At least I'm working. It's very difficult to get that next movie role. I'm grateful to have the television world accept me.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

I've been acting a long time. I've been a member of SAG since 1982.

Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.

I haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along. If there's an audition, you go for it. If you get the job, you do it - just to get experience, to act, to meet people.

You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.

I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.