Dirk Benedict

“Movies are movies, television is television.”

“Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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 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 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.”

“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.”

“Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!”

“From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.”

“The space genre is timeless.”

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

“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.”