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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.
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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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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America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
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Questions about acting are difficult.
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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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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
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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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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.
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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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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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In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.
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I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
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My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
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I never get involved with the ladies I work with.
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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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Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
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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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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 Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
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