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Dirk Benedict Biography

Dirk Benedict (born Dirk Niewoehner on March 1, 1945) is an American movie, television and stage actor and author. He is best known for playing 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.

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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.

Acting, College, Like, Sidetracked, Writing

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.

Anticipation, Cities, Dread, Fear, Hollywood, Time

Life without kids is like a camera without film.

Camera, Cameras, Film, Kids, Life

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

Behinds, Civilization, Entirely, Leave

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

Cuz, Reduced, Scripts, Write, Writing

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

Actors, Different, Part, Reflected, Talent

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

Minutes, Say, Show, Television, Time, Time Is Money

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

Actors, Allowed, Dumb, Stupid

Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that. . . reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor.

Activity, Dance, Dancing, Inner, People, Self

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

Get Involved, Involved, Ladies, Work

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

Dear, Dear God, Gloria, Long, Owe, Problem

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.

Doe, Films, Guarantees, Office, Structure

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

Become, Divine, Forever, Lives, Moments, Reborn

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.

Believe, Children, Parents, Present, Years

Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us no longer need suffer from ignorance as to how to have good prostate health. That someone is Roger Mason, and all that one needs to know in order to have a happy prostate has been distilled down into this one book. I would stake the health of my prostate on it, and can tell you as a prostate cancer survivor; it is the ONLY way to go.

Book, Cancer, Down, Happy, Rest, Taken

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.

Becoming, Parent, Single, Write, Writing

Movies are movies, television is television.

Movies, Television

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

Face, Joyous, Life, Matter, Sorrow, Sympathy

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.

Book, Idea, Ideas, Imagination, Seen, Writing

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

Astaire, Discipline, Fred, Hard, Hard Work, Work

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