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
With my introduction to Miss Swanson and macrobiotics, I had become obsessed.
We live in an age of experts, and if you are a TV star... it is difficult, if not impossible, to gain respect as a writer of the kind of books I've written or the kind of film I wrote and directed.
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.
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
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.
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.
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.