Jeff Bridges Quotes

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

It’s important for me to hear others position and understand them.

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.

There are interesting tensions that will naturally occur with any relationship. No matter what setting, what era, the tension is very, very real. It's basic human tension.

Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'

I don't like controversies. I try to understand where a person comes from and where he is.

Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.

Life with another person is always difficult.

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

The thing is, every relationship is different, and when you start talking about your problems, other people tend to talk about theirs.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.