Dirk Benedict Quotes

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, Life, Matter

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

Home, Emotional, Children

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, Rich, Dream

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

Success, Time, Health

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

Serenity, Whatever, Willing

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

Single, Same, Impossible

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

Happen, Different, Talent

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

Sympathy, Free, Wait

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

Time, America, Nation

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.
Dirk Benedict

Change, Good, Fact

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
Dirk Benedict

Fit, Costume, Battlestar

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

Two, Books, Written

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

Best, Real, Become

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

Music, Writing, Acting

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.
Dirk Benedict

Leave, Behind, Entirely

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

Book, Different, Play

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

Write, Film, Anybody

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

God, Children, Parents

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

Same, Another, Office

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

Life, Health, Happy

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
Dirk Benedict

Work, Hard, Learned

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

Dumb, Speaking, Allowed

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

Work, History, Nice

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

Business, Today, Thinking

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, Long, Normal

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: March 1, 1945

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