Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
BEAU BRIDGESMy father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
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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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My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
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We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
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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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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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Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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And I like music, too, I like playing music.
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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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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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What they always do with these shows is they always leave them open-ended.
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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 always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths.
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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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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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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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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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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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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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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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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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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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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’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 also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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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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