I don’t sell spells, and I don’t sell tricks. I don’t carry illusions or marked cards or weighted coins. I cannot sell you an endless purse or help you win the lottery. I can’t make that girl you’ve got your eye on fall in love with you, and I wouldn’t do it even if I could. I don’t have a psychic hotline to your dead relatives, I don’t know if you’re going to be successful in your career, and I don’t know when you’re going to get married. I can’t get you into Hogwarts or any other kind of magic school, and if you even mention those stupid sparkly vampires I will do something unpleasant to you.
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DIRK BENEDICT We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed ou... DIRK BENEDICT We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself ac... RUTH BENEDICT I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the rig... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 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 . . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to h... RUTH BENEDICT Lines are very difficult to learn. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth. THERESE BENEDICT LIFE: My favorite occupation. DIRK BENEDICT It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily... DIRK BENEDICT There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of abou... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is... DIRK BENEDICT One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised,... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun t... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the gir... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what ... DIRK BENEDICT Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, ps... DIRK BENEDICT When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, ... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a scree... DIRK BENEDICT We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up. BENEDICT WONG Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Pr... BENEDICT WONG Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amaz... BENEDICT WONG