Quotes By Dirk Benedict

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Life: my favorite occupation.

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.

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.