Quotes By Dirk Benedict

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

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

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.

Movies are movies, television is television.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The best things in life are usually difficult.