We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
BEAU BRIDGESSecond, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom.
More Beau Bridges Quotes
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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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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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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And I like music, too, I like playing music.
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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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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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I appeared several times on Atlantis while I was doing Stargate. And they’ve mentioned to me before that they’d like me do some, but right now I have nothing specific to report.
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None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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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’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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But on the other hand I believe I’m a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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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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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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You miss that guy but then suddenly you’re working with him again maybe somewhere.
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Sometimes it’s hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won’t happen, but there’s excitement at the network, so they’ll stay with the show.
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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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My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other’s houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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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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Sometimes that can be unfortunate because the work call is pretty intense and the preparation for it.
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Yeah, I’m very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I’ve worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they’re into, so I’m hoping that I will.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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And when I’ve been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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