Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.'
I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.
