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Dirk Benedict

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What we know about Dirk Benedict comes primarily from their words — and those words are worth your time. Their thinking spans from Sympathy to Health, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Discover 13 of Dirk Benedict's most memorable quotes, ranging across Sympathy, Health, Alone, Success, and Movies. Consider this gem from Dirk Benedict: "Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth."

“Movies are movies, television is television.”

— Dirk Benedict

Movies

All Quotes by Dirk Benedict

“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.”

— Dirk Benedict

Alone

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

— Dirk Benedict

Home

“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.”

— Dirk Benedict

Imagination

“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.”

— Dirk Benedict

Medical

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

— Dirk Benedict

Health

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

— Dirk Benedict

Sympathy

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

— Dirk Benedict

Sympathy

“Movies are movies, television is television.”

— Dirk Benedict

Movies

“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.”

— Dirk Benedict

Failure

“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.”

— Dirk Benedict

Famous

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

— Dirk Benedict

Alone