Quotes By Dirk Benedict

The space genre is timeless.

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

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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.

The best things in life are usually difficult.

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.

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.

Life: my favorite occupation.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

Movies are movies, television is television.

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

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

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.