Jeff Bridges Quotes

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

You can make more money - you can buy a new body - but you can't buy time. If you are wasting it, make different choices. Don't wait.

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

I do not really think about age. I am just sort of trying to get as much done before I get old and can't.

While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things.

Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was so that I would not look back and have any regrets.

I had opportunities to be a lot more successful, but for some reason or other - the way I was particularly genetically wired - I turned down a lot of opportunities.

You know what? At this point in my career, at this point in my life... I'm 34 years old; I don't have time to be hiding.

I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path.

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

I think we all have regrets but I try to just learn from them instead of giving them too much attention and validity in my life. I used to regret not going to a major four-year university and missing out on dorm life but if I had done that, who knows if I would be doing what I do now.

At 17, I realized that it's going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.

Everybody gets opportunities; what you do with them is up to you.