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You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.

Jeff Bridges

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Jeff Bridges
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 4
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