Dirk Benedict Quotes
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Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
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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.
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There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.
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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.
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Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
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Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
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America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
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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.
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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 future we call children. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents... we fail as God's Children.
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Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
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Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.
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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.
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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
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I never get involved with the ladies I work with.
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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.
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Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
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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.
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The space genre is timeless.
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Questions about acting are difficult.
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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.
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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.
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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
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I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
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I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
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We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.
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I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.
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I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
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I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
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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.
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When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.
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