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
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.
When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.
Movies are movies, television is television.
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
You can't leave civilization behind entirely.
The space genre is timeless.
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.
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.
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
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.