Dirk Benedict Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Stars, Careers, Film

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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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  Writing, Wife, Done

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• From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

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  Hard Work, Discipline, Hard

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• We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

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  Dog, Hiking, Mountain

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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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  Worst Person, Years, Persons

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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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  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

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  Book, Two, Fiction And Nonfiction

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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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  Stars, Nice, Would Be

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• To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

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  Writing, College, Acting

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• Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

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  Baby, Men, Hands

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• I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

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  Get Involved, Involved

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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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  Office, Doe, Guarantees

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• You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

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  Civilization, Behinds

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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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  Children, Believe, Years

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• Movies are movies, television is television.

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  Television

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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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  Scotch, Quality, Cuba

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• Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

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  Fear, Cities, Hollywood

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• It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.

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  Art, Exercise, Greatness

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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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  Stars, Differences, Film

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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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  Pulse, Males, Benches

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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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  Different, Actors, Talent

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• In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

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  Numbers, Arrogance, Losing

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• Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

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  Television, Minutes, Time Is Money

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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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  Believe, Unique, Voice

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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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  Writing, Parent, Becoming

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