Dirk Benedict Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

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

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• I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

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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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• 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 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.

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

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• From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

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Dirk Benedict (44)

Birth:	1st March, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

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Dirk Benedict is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.

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