Clu Gulager(1928-2022)

Given the script for M*A*S*H (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 very difficult under the best of circumstances, almost a killing kind of process. You can have fun during a picture but there's also a great deal of creative pain involved in something like this for me. There's not much happiness in the creative process.