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
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.