Quotes by Dirk Benedict

About Dirk Benedict:

Dirk Benedict is an American movie, television and stage actor who played the characters Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series. He is the author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy and And Then We Went Fishing.
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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.

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

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The best things in life are usually difficult.

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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.

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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.

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

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Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameDirk Benedict
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • AliasesDirk Niewoehner
  • BornMarch 1, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Actor