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Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
Dirk Benedict
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Dirk Benedict
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 1
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Dirk Niewoehner
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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.
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You can't leave civilization behind entirely.
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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.
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When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.
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There is a divine moment in our lives when we become One. It is called pro-creation and it is reborn continually and forever in the future we call children. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents... we fail as God's Children.
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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.
Dirk Benedict
From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.
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The space genre is timeless.
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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.
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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.
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I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
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I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
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I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.
Dirk Benedict
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
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In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.
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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
Dirk Benedict
Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor.
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I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
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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
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.
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