There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.


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Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... re...
DIRK BENEDICT
We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique vo...
DIRK BENEDICT
It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke.
DIRK BENEDICT
We do not see the lens through which we look
RUTH BENEDICT
There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reb...
DIRK BENEDICT
Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors ...
DIRK BENEDICT
The idea of turning into a reptile fascinated me. Other than that, my role was kind of... well, I do...
DIRK BENEDICT
The image changes completely when looking from side to side. You can see clearly one image over the ...
BILL BENEDICT
A lot of printing techniques started to come together in the '90s. Now the technology is really grab...
BILL BENEDICT
The technology is getting a new life.
BILL BENEDICT
The response rate for the point-of-purchase store displays is 10 times higher than two-dimensional p...
BILL BENEDICT
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
DIRK BENEDICT
I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and h...
DIRK BENEDICT
You can never tire, never wilt-and become half-tyrant, half-psychiatrist, half-madman, and half-dead...
DIRK BENEDICT
From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how...
DIRK BENEDICT
We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed ou...
DIRK BENEDICT
If there’s one thing all diviners share, it’s curiosity. We really can’t help it; it’s just ...
BENEDICT JACKA
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself ac...
RUTH BENEDICT
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
DIRK BENEDICT
The beef, venison and elk vibrations of my first 22 years were still very much controlling the natur...
DIRK BENEDICT
In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldn't accept losing that time slot.
DIRK BENEDICT
My son flipped. He loved it. He's 9 now, but he still loves reptiles. To this day, he's so proud tha...
DIRK BENEDICT
Films are about emotions. They are, for the most part and certainly in today's mainstream film world...
DIRK BENEDICT
As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventuall...
DIRK BENEDICT
That's Hollywood. Boom! From star to forgotten actor.
DIRK BENEDICT
I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests...
DIRK BENEDICT
I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
DIRK BENEDICT
I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifeti...
DIRK BENEDICT
A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a ...
DIRK BENEDICT
Someday I would love to publish the hundreds of letters I've received from people around the world, ...
DIRK BENEDICT
I was the final word on everything. I wrote and directed. Complete cast approval. Every piece of mus...
DIRK BENEDICT
People think surviving cancer is tough, or surviving a divorce, but NOTHING compares with fighting w...
DIRK BENEDICT
I have my routine. I'm running 3 or 4 miles a day.
DIRK BENEDICT
I am very much a person who enjoys mornings as much as evenings.
DIRK BENEDICT
I am not simply an actor, but also have written books and now directed/written a film, I have some p...
DIRK BENEDICT
Cassavetes would have been pleased with me. Truffaut, too, I think.
DIRK BENEDICT
Today I spend more time making music than I do writing.
DIRK BENEDICT
In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could jus...
DIRK BENEDICT
I ALWAYS enjoy myself. And if I didn't enjoy myself in this experience, I should be locked away for ...
DIRK BENEDICT
The media destroyed the show with all the hype. All the press worked against us. We didn't become th...
DIRK BENEDICT
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and ...
DIRK BENEDICT
If you have talent as a screenwriter, it will out. Nothing succeeds like perseverance. Never give up...
DIRK BENEDICT
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult,...
DIRK BENEDICT
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent t...
DIRK BENEDICT
That's the network mentality. They're always chasing the polls, trying to second-guess what the peop...
DIRK BENEDICT
Sadly, there are no rules by which an actor learns his craft. Would that it were that easy. I spent ...
DIRK BENEDICT
There isn't a place on Earth with the amount of beautiful ladies as LA. When you're young and starri...
DIRK BENEDICT
My films went to numerous film festivals. I was stunned at how shallow the films were and how much a...
DIRK BENEDICT
I enjoy writing nonfiction the most because one is limited only by one's imagination. Autobiography ...
DIRK BENEDICT
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the en...
DIRK BENEDICT
Hollywood... damn well won't hire a writer over 40 unless he made his mark when he was under 30. Ame...
DIRK BENEDICT
I woke myself up to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pill...
BENEDICT FREEDMAN