Jeff Bridges

One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

I used to read comics when I was a kid.

I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.

I'm not real good at romance.

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.

It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.