Jeff Bridges Quotes

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.

'Prince of Persia' just didn't turn out to be what I thought it was going to be.

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard.

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

I don't like expectations.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

It's the fate of every executive. He gets in on promises and finds that things can't be fulfilled as he hoped.