Dirk Benedict Quotes (92 Quotes)

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

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

The media destroyed the show with all the hype. All the press worked against us. We didn't become the Number 1 show in the country ,and the critics destroyed us.

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

Today I spend more time making music than I do writing.

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

My films went to numerous film festivals. I was stunned at how shallow the films were and how much alike. And how politically correct. Not only did you have to be young, but also too a member of some minority. Teenage angst, gay, lesbian, any film about a woman as a victim.

If I could play a convincing black transvestite, that would mean I was one hell of an actor. Nowadays I'd be marched against by the black political groups, the transvestites and God knows who else.

Someday I would love to publish the hundreds of letters I've received from people around the world, telling me their stories of having stumbled into my book and taking it to heart, to soul, and recovering from their illness. Amazing stories of recovery.

One can have a 10-year-old tumor languishing in one's prostate and pass a physical with flying colors. I know. It happened to me time and again, every fall, as I had my physical for college football. And again in 1969, when I passed my pre-induction physical for the military.

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 personally don't think anybody should be allowed to write a screenplay UNTIL they are over 40. It used to be don't trust anyone over 30 now it is don't hire anyone over 30. I wish I were joking.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke.

Films are about emotions. They are, for the most part and certainly in today's mainstream film world, NOT about ideas. Not thought-provoking. They are all about EMOTION. FEELINGS.

We had many intellectuals and industry people who looked down on us, as if it were beneath them to even watch us. Nowadays, those comparisons aren't made.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I am a better actor now than at any time in my life. And haven't worked for seven years

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

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.

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

There isn't a place on Earth with the amount of beautiful ladies as LA. When you're young and starring in a successful TV show and playing the ladies' man-well, it's a good thing the show was cancelled, or I would have been old before my time

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

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

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.

The space genre is timeless.

I can tell the difference between something filmed, like we did back then, and the computer-generated effects of today. Ours looked real on film because they were real.

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

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.

People think surviving cancer is tough, or surviving a divorce, but NOTHING compares with fighting with American Culture when you want to raise your kids free of junk food. Read Junk Food Nation. A great book.

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

The idea of turning into a reptile fascinated me. Other than that, my role was kind of... well, I don't want to say boring, but rather ordinary. I was playing the helpless victim.

I live very much, try to, in the moment, and find whichever moment I'm in to be the best.

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.

With my introduction to Miss Swanson and macrobiotics, I had become obsessed.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldn't accept losing that time slot.

That's Hollywood. Boom From star to forgotten actor.