Quotes By Dirk Benedict

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

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.

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.

Life: my favorite occupation.

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

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

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.

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.

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

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

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

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

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

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.

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

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.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

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.

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.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

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.