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Jeff Bridges' Famous Lines
Movie/TV title: The Big Lebowksi
Character name: Jeffrey Lebowski "The Dude"
Quote(s): "F*** sympathy! I don't need your f***in' sympathy, man, I need my f***ing johnson!"
MORE QUOTES FROM THE DUDEJeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges)
  • "Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here!"
  • "So if you could just write me my check for ten percent of a half a million... five grand... I'll go out and mingle."
  • "By the way, do you think that you could give me that $20,000 in cash? My concern is, and I have to, uh, check with my accountant, that this might bump me into a higher, uh, tax..."
  • "I! The Royal "we"! You know, the editorial..."
  • "Yes, Walter, you're right. There is an unspoken message here. It's "F*** YOU, LEAVE ME THE F*** ALONE!" Yeah, I'll be at practice."
  • "Your money is being held by a kid named Larry Sellers. Real f***ing brat, but I'm sure your goons can get it off him. I mean, he's fifteen...flunking social studies."

  • "You thought that Bunny had been kidnapped and you were f***in' glad, man. You could use it as an excuse to make some money disappear. You'd just met me... You human paraquat! You figured 'Oh, here's a loser. A deadbeat, someone the square community won't give a sh*t about."
  • " I could be just sitting at home with pee stains on my rug."
  • " I'm sorry your stepmother is a nympho."
  • "Does the Pope sh*t in the woods?"
  • "At least I'm housebroken."
  • "Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus."
  • "You're not wrong Walter. You're just an a**hole."
  • "Mr. Treehorn treats objects like women, man."
  • "I'll tell you what I'm blathering about... I've got information man! New sh*t has come to light! And sh*t... man, she kidnapped herself. Well sure, man. Look at it... a young trophy wife, in the parlance of our times, you know, and she, uh, uh, owes money all over town, including to known pornographers, and that's cool... that's, that's cool, I'm, I'm saying, she needs money, man. And of course they're going to say that they didn't get it, because... she wants more, man! She's got to feed the monkey, I mean uh... hasn't that ever occurred to you, man? Sir?"
  • "Who gives a sh*t about the f***ing marmot!"
  • "Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing."
  • "Well, I dig your style too, man. Got a whole cowboy thing goin'."
  • "F*** the tournament... F*** YOU, Walter!"
  • "My only hope is that the big Lebowski kills me before the Germans can cut my dick off."
  • "Well, I still jerk off manually."
  • "We're going to cut your dick off, Larry."
  • "Beaver? Uhhhh, you mean vagina...? I mean, you know the guy?"
  • "Man, if my f***in' ex-wife asked me to take care of her f***in' dog while she and her boyfriend went to Honolulu I'd tell her to go f*** herself."
  • "No, I'm saying, if he knows I'm a f***-up, why does he leave me in charge of getting his wife back? Because he doesn't f***ing want her back! He no longer digs her, it's all a show! Ok, so then why doesn't he give a sh*t about his million bucks? I mean, he knows we never handed off the briefcase, but he never asked for it back. The million bucks was never in the briefcase! The a**hole was hoping that they would kill her! You threw out a ringer for a ringer!"
  • "Look, nothing is f***ed, here, man."
  • "Okay. The old man told me to take any rug in the house."
  • "Nobody calls me Lebowski. You got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man."
  • "Walter, I love you, but sooner or later, you're going to have to face the fact you're a goddamn moron."
  • "Thank you Walter, that makes me feel very secure, it makes me feel very warm inside."
  • "Oh, no I did, but I spent most of my time occupying various administration buildings... smoking a lot of thai stick... breaking into the ROTC... and bowling. To tell you the truth Brandt, I don't remember most of it."
  • "God damn you Walter! You f***in' a**hole! Everything's a f***in' travesty with you, man! And what was all that sh*t about Vietnam? What the F***, has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the f*** are you talking about?"
  • "I've had a -- had a rough night, and I hate the f***ing Eagles, man."
  • "Where's the f***ing money Lebowski?"
  • "Yeah, well. The Dude abides."
  • "She's not my special lady, she's my f***ing lady friend. I'm just helping her conceive, man!"
  • "Fortunately, I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug, uh, regimen to keep my mind, you know, uh, limber."
  • "My... my wi-, my wife, Bunny? Do you see a wedding ring on my finger? Does this place look like I'm f***ing married? The toilet seat's up, man!"
  • "That rug really tied the room together."
  • "Mind if I do a Jay?"
  • " I do mind, the Dude minds. This will not stand, ya know, this aggression will not stand, man."
  • "I dropped off the money exactly as per... look, man, I've got certain information, all right? Certain things have come to light. And, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, you know, given the nature of all this new sh*t, you know, I-I-I-I... this could be a-a-a-a lot more, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, complex, I mean, it's not just, it might not be just such a simple... uh, you know?"
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Jeff Bridges Quotes
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  • "I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did."
  • "When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another."
  • "I went from high school -- bang! -- into the movies. I did spend a few weeks in acting classes in New York when my father was there doing "Cactus Flower". But most of my training really came from my parents and my brother (Beau Bridges)."
  • "For a long while I wasn't sure I was going to make acting my main focus professionally. I was interested in music, painting and other creative pursuits. I did the movies with a little more capricious an attitude; I wasn't so seriously minded as a total professional. Then came The Iceman Cometh. We had eight weeks of rehearsals and then we shot for two weeks. So it was almost the reverse of how most movies are made. During those eight weeks, I was sitting around with these great actors and this great director, just shooting the breeze and, of course, going over the material. I was also getting to know how other actors of that caliber work on things like this. It was very enlightening. After that experience, I decided, "Hey, I can do this. And I can do this for the rest of my life in a professional way"."
  • "As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting."
  • "I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!"
  • "My father (Lloyd Bridges) encouraged his kids to go into showbiz, not because he wanted to live vicariously through them, but because he dug it so much. Growing up there was like a mild competition with my father and my brother, not so much maybe in reality, but in my own mind."
  • On acting: "I kind of rebelled against it. I resisted it. I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a kid and was reluctant to go into, y'know, Dad's line of business."
  • "Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive."
  • "Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do. There was a certain amount of guilt and worry about whether I really had what it takes. I thought I'd spare my girls that."
  • "When I was offered the part of The Dude in "The Big Lebowski", I went through a big thing in my head worrying if this was going to be a bad example for my girls. The guy was kind of an anti-hero, a pot-smoking, slacker kind of guy, and I was really racking my brain about it. I always want to feel free to play any role, a despicable guy or a good guy -- the full range of human experience. But this one was really giving me problems. So I assembled the family and told them my problem. After a long pause, my middle girl said, "Dad, you're an actor. We know that it's all pretend what you do. We know that when you kiss some lady on the screen that you still love Mom. We know you're an actor". So I had their permission, their blessing, to go play a character like The Dude. That was great that they understood that. And I count on the audiences to understand that what I do in my personal life and what I do on the screen are not some kind of example for them to base their lives on. Hopefully, when people see a movie, they know it's a movie."
  • "A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can. What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it."






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