Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedictis an American movie, television and stage actor who played the characters Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series. He is the author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy and And Then We Went Fishing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth1 March 1945
CityHelena, MT
CountryUnited States of America
Questions about acting are difficult.
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
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.
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
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.
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
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 can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
Life without kids is like a camera without film.
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.
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.