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. – Dirk Benedict
If you want to have great success, you’d better give them what they want, but so be it. – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime. – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
Children who cling to parents or who don’t want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth. – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. – Dirk Benedict
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200! – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
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. – Dirk Benedict
There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It’s called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever. – Dirk Benedict
