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My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.

Beau Bridges

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
You miss that guy but then suddenly you’re working with him again maybe somewhere.
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Guy Somebody Suddenly Working
Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Country Film Lack Normally Western
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
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
Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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Desire Movement Press
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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Flowers Garden Vegetable
Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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Guitar High School
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom.
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Country Epic Film Native
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
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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Actor Friend Lots Running
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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Comfortable Command Couple Mellow Situation Working
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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Aspect Believe Hands
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
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
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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Country Interested Native Particular West
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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Comedy Father Name Play
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
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
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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Brother Kids Sports
We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
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Blessed Dad Years
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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Character Couple School
I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
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People Secret Thinking
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
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
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
I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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Character Play Trying

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