And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.
BEAU BRIDGESMy favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
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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 got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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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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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 think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
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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’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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Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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What they always do with these shows is they always leave them open-ended.
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I know Amanda Tapping is a regular now on the show. But I have no plans to do that as we speak. But I don’t know.
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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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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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And I like music, too, I like playing music.
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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 wish I didn’t have any flaws! I think everybody is flawed.
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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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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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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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The SG-1 franchise has been so successful for the network, that they always want to keep it open, an option to do it again in some way, whether that’s a movie or a series, or whatever.
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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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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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I have a movie coming out that I did with Misha Barton, called Don’t Fade Away.
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My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
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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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