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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.

Beau Bridges

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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Brother Job Mom Responsibility
The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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Enjoy Thinking Watches
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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Brother Eye Love Thinking
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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Bakers Boys Hawaii
And I like music, too, I like playing music.
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Like Playing Music
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
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Boyfriend Dad Teacher
Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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Desire Movement Press
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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Kids Men Photography
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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Father King Limit Series Two
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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Fiction Guy Interesting People
Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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Guitar High School
First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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Bridges Name Real
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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Communication Intimate People Relationship Sort
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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Flowers Garden Vegetable
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.
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Character Fun Jobs
Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Country Film Lack Normally Western
I’ve always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths.
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Communication Jobs People
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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Atlantis Speak
We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
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Blessed Dad Years
As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I’ve been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.
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Bar Entertainment Travel
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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Excitement Sometime Sticks
I have a movie coming out that I did with Misha Barton, called Don’t Fade Away.
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Away Coming Fade Move
I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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Character Play Trying
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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Clothes Done Jobs
Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that’s not the only place my friends come from.
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Actors Friends Oldest Some
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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Actual Everything Focus Job Working
My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
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Always Trying Brother Together

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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