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Dirk Benedict [1945-0] American

Rank: 103
Actor, Movie actor

Dirk Benedict is 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.

Sympathy, Failure, Famous, History, Medical, Money

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Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!	Money	101
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.	History	102
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.	Sympathy	103
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.		104
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.		105
We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.		106
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.		107
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.		108
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.		109
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.		110
There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.		111
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.		112
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.	Failure	113
I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.		114
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.		115
If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.		116
I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.	Medical	117
I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!		118
Life: my favorite occupation.		119
The best things in life are usually difficult.		120
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.		121
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.	Famous	122
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.		123
I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.		124
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.		125
Movies are movies, television is television.		126
The space genre is timeless.		201
I never get involved with the ladies I work with.		202
You can't leave civilization behind entirely.		203
I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.		204
Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.		205
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.		206
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.		207
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.		208
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.		209
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.		210
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.		211
When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.		212
Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.		213
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.		214
I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.		215
It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.		216
My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.		217
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.	Sympathy	218

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