I have a movie coming out that I did with Misha Barton, called Don’t Fade Away.
BEAU BRIDGESSometimes 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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I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
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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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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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The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go to Hawaii. There don’t seem to be any takers on that one!
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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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I’ve always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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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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We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
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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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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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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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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that’s not the only place my friends come from.
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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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And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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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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If your focus is there, then the actual doing of the job will be fun and enjoyable. But if you’re so involved in trying to be interesting and a character and everything when you’re not working, it can get in the way and people get goofed up.
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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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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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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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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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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 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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What they always do with these shows is they always leave them open-ended.
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And I like music, too, I like playing music.
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