Quotes from Dirk Benedict

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

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.

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

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

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.

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.

If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

The space genre is timeless.

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

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

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.

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.

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.

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

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.

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.

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

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

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.