Jeff Bridges has confessed he regrets he did not encourage his children to try their luck in Hollywood.

The Oscar winning actor said he was grateful to his parents Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges for egging him on towards acting and wished he had done the same with his three daughters.

"I didn't make it as available to them as my dad did with us. Not that he was a stage parent - he just enjoyed it so much that he wanted to turn his kids on to it. And he was right, I've had a wonderful life," the Daily Star quoted him as saying.

"I didn't do it with my kids and I kind of regret it a little bit. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if they stumbled into it some day. They've got it in their blood, three generations of it," he added. (ANI)