Quotes from Dirk Benedict

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

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

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.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

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.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

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.

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.

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.

Movies are movies, television is television.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Life without kids is like a camera without film.

LIFE: My favorite occupation.