I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
- Dirk Benedict
Career, Star, Having, Hopkins
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Baggage, Devote, Around, Energies
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Done, Ex-Wife, Cuz, Collaborate
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
- Dirk Benedict
Been, Anybody, Reduced, Cuz
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
- Dirk Benedict
Say, Embarrassed, Books, Nonfiction
When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.
- Dirk Benedict
Young, More, Part, Young Actor
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Voice, Happen, Some, Different Areas
I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
- Dirk Benedict
Fit, Still, Galactica
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
- Dirk Benedict
Home, Want, Psychological, Cling
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
- Dirk Benedict
Television, More, Show, Time Is Money
There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.
- Dirk Benedict
Divine, Lives, Our, Reborn
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
- Dirk Benedict
Sympathy, Meant, Nor, Meant To Be
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Medical, Normal, Very, Normalcy
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
- Dirk Benedict
Work, Learned, Fred Astaire, Astaire
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.
- Dirk Benedict
City, Hollywood, Again, Anticipation
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Artist, Rich, Certainly, Motive
The space genre is timeless.
- Dirk Benedict
Space, Genre, Timeless
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Box, Which, Only Difference, Budget
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Another, Which, Films, Structure
You can't leave civilization behind entirely.
- Dirk Benedict
Behind, Civilization, Leave, Entirely
My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
- Dirk Benedict
Blank, Blank Paper, Fill, Front
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
- Dirk Benedict
Play, Very, Otherwise, Requires
Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.
- Dirk Benedict
Change, Fact, In Fact, Unavoidable
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Here, Been, Around, Hanging
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Craft, Vice, About, Vice Versa
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Thought, Pretty, TV, Carpenter
I never get involved with the ladies I work with.
- Dirk Benedict
Work, Never, Involved, Ladies
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
- Dirk Benedict
Happy, My Life, Learned, Dear
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
- Dirk Benedict
Hollywood, Film Business, Mainstream
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
- Dirk Benedict
Sympathy, Wait, Lives, Our Lives
If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.
- Dirk Benedict
Success, Better, Give, Great Success
Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
- Dirk Benedict
Dumb, Speaking, Allowed, Input
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.
- Dirk Benedict
College, Like, Studied, Dialogue
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Famous, Very, Fairly, Your Dream
I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
- Dirk Benedict
Person, How, Took, Noticed
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Parent, Becoming, I Write, Length
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
- Dirk Benedict
Face, Passage, Terrified, Lifts
I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.
- Dirk Benedict
Serenity, Some, Very, Lifetime
Life: my favorite occupation.
- Dirk Benedict
Life, Favorite, Occupation
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.
- Dirk Benedict
TV, I Write, Read, Passionate
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.
- Dirk Benedict
Destiny, Fail, Which, Extent
The best things in life are usually difficult.
- Dirk Benedict
Life, Best, Things, Difficult
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