He was given the script for MASH (1970). He turned down the offer because he hated it. He says that was one of his biggest career mistakes.
I don't have fun acting. I don't enjoy acting. I think acting is very painful. There may be those joy boys and joy girls who claim that acting is the stuff of life, but I think most artists find that their art is very painful and very laborsome and ...
William Martin Gulager
Holdenville, Oklahoma, USA