Dirk Benedict

Benedict(On how quickly things changed after Battlestar Galactica was cancelled): The funny thing was, I went from being a big TV star on the lot, with my own parking space, my own table in the commissary, to a complete nobody! When I went to get my stuff, they wouldn't let me on the lot. I said to the gate guy, 'Hey, Scotty! it's me! I just want to get my things.' He said, 'You don't have a pass!' So, I had to make all these calls just to get my toothbrush! That's Hollywood. Boom! From star to forgotten actor.

Dirk Benedict: (on the A-Team) I enjoyed it immensely. By nature I'm terribly serious, so as an actor I tend to want to be silly. It was a comedic show, almost like a cartoon. We just had to hang on to enough reality to make it possible for adults to watch it. The actors I worked with, especially Mr. T and Dwight Schultz were very funny people. It was pretty much four years of laughter.

Dirk Benedict: I am funny by my own rights, I don't need jokes.

Dirk Benedict: I usually have to go out with two or three girls because they wear out.

Dirk Benedict: When the ship is sinking and someones having great time and happy about it, you throw them overboard.

Dirk Benedict: (On the new Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck) People kept asking me about Starbuck being a girl and I finally wrote what I thought for a British magazine called Dreamwatch. It was called Starbuck: Lost In Castration, and a lot of people got really angry -- 'this chauvinist pig, this angry bitter old actor, how dare he?' It was about why you can't have a character like Starbuck in a show today -- a cigar-smoking, drinking, womanizing lovable scoundrel. The feminist movement got rid of those guys. In the war against masculinity, the only way that character could work was to make him a woman.

Dirk Benedict: Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

Dirk Benedict: Dialogue is my forte. Whether that is because I am an actor or merely talented in that regard I have no idea. Nor do I care. When I write, I always feel like I am just taking dictation-following the characters around and writing down what they say.

Dirk Benedict: Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

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

Dirk Benedict: Life without kids is like a camera without film.

Dirk Benedict: There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation and it is reborn, continually and forever, in the future we call children. They are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.