I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

- Dirk Benedict

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

- Dirk Benedict

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

- Dirk Benedict

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.

- Dirk Benedict

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.

- Dirk Benedict

The space genre is timeless.

- Dirk Benedict

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

- Dirk Benedict

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

- Dirk Benedict

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.

- Dirk Benedict

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

- Dirk Benedict

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.

- Dirk Benedict

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.

- Dirk Benedict

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

- Dirk Benedict

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

- Dirk Benedict

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

- Dirk Benedict

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

- Dirk Benedict

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

- Dirk Benedict

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

- Dirk Benedict

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

- Dirk Benedict

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.

- Dirk Benedict