Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that’s not the only place my friends come from.
BEAU BRIDGESWe 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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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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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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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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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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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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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 got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
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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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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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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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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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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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Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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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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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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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 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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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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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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What they always do with these shows is they always leave them open-ended.
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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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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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I have a movie coming out that I did with Misha Barton, called Don’t Fade Away.
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Yeah, I’m very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I’ve worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they’re into, so I’m hoping that I will.
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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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