Jeff Bridges Quotes

Fear drives you a lot harder than success does.

Fear drives you and makes you better.

IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it.

The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

Sometimes fear can bring performances out from you.

You need confidence to play under pressure.

Whenever I've felt that there was a lot of pressure on me. I perform at my best.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

Being brave is not as easy as it looks.

To do something good, it has to scare you.

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.