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Politics & Power Quote by Jeff Bridges

"One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America"

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Jeff Bridges frames activism the way a veteran actor frames a career pivot: not as a brand extension, but as a deliberate step off the stage and into the machinery of public life. The line is careful about boundaries - “outside the realm of acting and the arts” - which reads like an acknowledgment of celebrity fatigue. He anticipates the eye-roll: another famous person with a cause. So he disarms it by conceding art’s value while refusing to treat it as sufficient. That small clause, “although both have their place in this,” is the tell. He’s not renouncing storytelling; he’s demoting it from solution to tool.

The specific intent is concrete and domestic: “ending childhood hunger here in America.” Not alleviating, not raising awareness - ending. The ambition matters because hunger in the U.S. is often rhetorically outsourced to poverty statistics or holiday charity drives, treated as an unfortunate background condition rather than a policy failure. Bridges insists it’s solvable, and he locates the scandal in its proximity: not “somewhere,” but “here.”

The subtext is a challenge to the cultural hierarchy that flatters actors for caring while keeping them safely symbolic. Bridges is saying: let the arts inspire, but don’t confuse inspiration with dinner. Coming from an actor whose public persona reads as laid-back and humane, the statement lands without sermonizing. It leverages celebrity not as moral authority, but as a spotlight aimed at an embarrassment the country has learned to live with.

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Bridges, Jeff. (2026, January 17). One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/one-of-the-things-i-want-to-do-thats-outside-the-80274/

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Bridges, Jeff. "One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/one-of-the-things-i-want-to-do-thats-outside-the-80274/.

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"One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/one-of-the-things-i-want-to-do-thats-outside-the-80274/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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Jeff Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is a Actor from USA.

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