Quotes By Dirk Benedict

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

The space genre is timeless.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

The best things in life are usually difficult.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

Life: my favorite occupation.