Some actors, and especially the younger actors, they come into the job with a lot of attention on how they behave and everything when they’re not working.
BEAU BRIDGESWe come in. We don’t know anybody or very few people that we work with, but the nature of the job pulls us into a sort of an intimate kind of relationship and communication and then they’re gone and it’s kind of melancholy.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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What they always do with these shows is they always leave them open-ended.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
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I wish I didn’t have any flaws! I think everybody is flawed.
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I have a movie coming out that I did with Misha Barton, called Don’t Fade Away.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that’s not the only place my friends come from.
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I’ve done a number of these My Name is Earl shows. I play Earl’s father. It’s a half-hour comedy. And I’ll be doing some more of those.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
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Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it’s a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
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Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother’s instigation. So I owe him for that.
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I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
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We come in. We don’t know anybody or very few people that we work with, but the nature of the job pulls us into a sort of an intimate kind of relationship and communication and then they’re gone and it’s kind of melancholy.
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I’ve always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths.
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I’ve always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans – the original Americans.
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I was coming into a situation I didn’t really know much about, and now, after a couple of years, the character’s kind of mellowed and gotten comfortable working at the command center and very comfortable with his troops.
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I think that by now, in the very beginning when I first joined the show, General Landry was like a new kid in school.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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I know Amanda Tapping is a regular now on the show. But I have no plans to do that as we speak. But I don’t know.
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When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.
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But when I’m done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it’s like a suit of clothes, put on something else.
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