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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.
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 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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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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I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
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Questions about acting are difficult.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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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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The space genre is timeless.
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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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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 Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
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Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
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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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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 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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America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
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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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