Quote: 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. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: 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]
Quote: LIFE: My favorite occupation. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: I consider my life one long string of failures, but all of the failure has made me more grateful to be alive, more joyous in the moment and more appreciative for every day I have. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: 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. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: I personally don't think anybody should be allowed to write a screenplay UNTIL they are over 40. It used to be don't trust anyone over 30; now it is don't hire anyone over 30. I wish I were joking. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: I live very much, try to, in the moment, and find whichever moment I'm in to be the best. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: My films went to numerous film festivals. I was stunned at how shallow the films were and how much alike. And how politically correct. Not only did you have to be young, but also too a member of some minority. Teenage angst, gay, lesbian, any film about a woman as a victim. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: I enjoy writing nonfiction the most because one is limited only by one's imagination. Autobiography is tough. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: I wouldn't refuse stardom, recognition, acclaim. I had no axe to grind either way... I wasn't wishing I was somewhere else, somebody else, richer or more famous. I was happy and secure with who I was, what I was and where I was. I didn't have to have what they all had. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: 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]
Quote: That's the network mentality. They're always chasing the polls, trying to second-guess what the people like. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: If you have talent as a screenwriter, it will out. Nothing succeeds like perseverance. Never give up. Anyway, life never turns out the way you imagine, dream or plan it to. Or hadn't you heard? [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: 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]
Quote: My son flipped. He loved it. He's 9 now, but he still loves reptiles. To this day, he's so proud that his Dad turned into a snake. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Hollywood today is ALL about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in ONE BOX. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: Movies are movies, television is television. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: Change is good. And in fact unavoidable. [Dirk Benedict]
Quote: My children are with me morning and night and weekends. Constantly. They are my complete priority, have been, and so they aren't suffering from lack of being with dad. [Dirk Benedict]