Jeff Bridges Quotes

If I'm working, I'm not D.J.'ing. And if I'm not working, I'm D.J.'ing all the time.

My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

Play so that you may be serious.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

I always got my work done before playing.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

My manager always preaches golf comes first.

There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn't ever feel like work.

I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.

If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music, and to paint when I feel like it.

When I'm home, I never take work calls. If I'm at work, I work; if I'm home that's it, I'm home.

As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

Being a baseball player is most important, first and foremost. Obviously, there are other obligations that come with everything. You just need to balance it and take it in stride, but at the same time, be mindful of your time and prioritize everything and what is most beneficial.

You must take care of your family, respect the music, and work intensely. Health and family come first, and then you can make much better music.