Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedictis an American movie, television and stage actor who played the characters Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series. He is the author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy and And Then We Went Fishing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth1 March 1945
CityHelena, MT
CountryUnited States of America
Dirk Benedict quotes about
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
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.
My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.
The beef, venison and elk vibrations of my first 22 years were still very much controlling the nature of my day-to-day activities. Arthritis was my morning wake-up call, mood swings between ecstasy and despair my daily state of mind, and Scotch my release from it all.
It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke.
I also knew that, although infinitely slower, the only real path to personal health and happiness was through my own slow and painful understanding.
I am very much a person who enjoys mornings as much as evenings.
The idea of turning into a reptile fascinated me. Other than that, my role was kind of... well, I don't want to say boring, but rather ordinary. I was playing the helpless victim.
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.
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?
I maintain you can make a film/TV star out of a can of sardines.
A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a writer have to be insane to write the part of someone insane? I know he has to be insane to want to be a writer, but that isn't the point.