Political Quote of the Day

From former actor Dirk Benedict in a piece on National Review:

“Hollywood attracts people who want to be famous,” Benedict says. “It attracts people who are insecure in who they are, and their identification comes from pretending to be other people. But it’s really a profession for 14-year-olds in terms of the intellectual demands on an actor — which is why children are so good at it. It’s difficult for adults to grow up and still be a 14-year-old.”

And, Benedict observes, you don’t have to look very far to find celebrity behavior that validates his theory. Exhibit A: Sean Penn at the Academy Awards. “You hear these things and you wonder ‘How can they say these things?’ ” Benedict says. “Well, it’s child-like. It’s all feeling and emotion, and you need a parent to control that. But these people have become very powerful because our culture worships celebrity.”

NRO has a good profile on the conservative former Battlestar Galactica and A-Team star. He's also writing for Big Hollywood these days, including his excoriation of the BG remake and his concerns that the A-Team remake will turn into the Gay Team.