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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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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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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Sometimes that can be unfortunate because the work call is pretty intense and the preparation for it.
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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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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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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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My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
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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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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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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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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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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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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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I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
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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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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom.
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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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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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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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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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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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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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I wish I didn’t have any flaws! I think everybody is flawed.
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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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