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
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.
In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.
Life without kids is like a camera without film.
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
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.
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
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 have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
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.
There is a divine moment in our lives when we become One. It is called pro-creation and it is reborn continually and forever in the future we call children. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents... we fail as God's Children.
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.