122 Quotes by Dirk Benedict

The best things in life are usually difficult.

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.

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.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

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.

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

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

With my introduction to Miss Swanson and macrobiotics, I had become obsessed.

We live in an age of experts, and if you are a TV star... it is difficult, if not impossible, to gain respect as a writer of the kind of books I've written or the kind of film I wrote and directed.