Dirk Benedict Quotes

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

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

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.

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 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.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

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

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

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.

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 never get involved with the ladies I work with.

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.

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.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

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

Movies are movies, television is television.

Life without kids is like a camera without film.

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

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

The space genre is timeless.

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.

The best things in life are usually difficult.

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 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.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

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.

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

When I was a young actor ... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.