I really wanted to be the American James Bond when I was starting out in the business. Then I got 'Falcon Crest,' and the film portion of my career took a back seat.

I'm in control of things happening in my aviation career. And I'm not in my acting career.

Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.

I thought my acting career was going to just last forever - and I didn't plan on it ending at 41, 42 years of age.

I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

From 1949 to 1953, I studied towards the diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich. It is in the last year of this study that I made my first contacts with fundamental research, when working on the isolation and characterization of a new isomer of Cl34 with a half-life of 1.5 seconds.

David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.