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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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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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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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Life without kids is like a camera without film.
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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.
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From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
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America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
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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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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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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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I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.
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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.
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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.
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I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
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The space genre is timeless.
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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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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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I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
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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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I never get involved with the ladies I work with.
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