Dirk Benedict is a famous Actor from USA, he is 79 years old and still alive, born March 1, 1945.
Zodiac:
He is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive.
Our collection contains 40 quotes who is written / told by Dirk.
"America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts"
"Movies are movies, television is television"
"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"
"I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage"
"I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!"
"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"
"The best things in life are usually difficult"
"My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it"
"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"
"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"
"Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb"
"Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula"
"A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay"
"The space genre is timeless"
"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 am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime"
"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"
"From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life"
"Change is good. And in fact unavoidable"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it"
"I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years"
"Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box"
"If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point"
"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"
"Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth"
"You can't leave civilization behind entirely"
"When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected"
"Life: my favorite occupation"
"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"
"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"
"From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work"
"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"
"I never get involved with the ladies I work with"
"I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say"
"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"
