Dirk Benedict Quotes

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• Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
• Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
• 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…
• 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…
• I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
• I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
• 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…
• A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
• From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
• Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
• Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
• 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…
• Life without kids is like a camera without film.
• There is a divine moment in our lives when we become One. It is called pro-creation and it is reborn continually and forever in the…
• Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
• America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
• Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.
• Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
• 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…
• 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…

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