Patrick Richwood is recognized most everywhere he goes. Feature films (often directed by Garry Marshall), television, stage…. He’s also an incredibly talented artist and illustrator and an all-around engaging man to hang with.

1. Who was the first person to encourage your creative spirit? Tell me about this person.

Patrick: I don’t know if it was my mom or my dad so I’ll say both. They met as actors on the stage in San Francisco and were both eventually in the film/TV business for life.

2. Tell me about performances/works of art/actions in any medium that inspired you?

Patrick: I first knew I wanted to be on the stage when my parents took me to see Marcel Marceau at the Shubert Theater, L.A. in 1974. I was blown away by his physical strength and grace, his wit and his extraordinary timing.

3. What does the word ‘original’ mean to you?

Patrick: Unique, one-of-a-kind, authentic.   .

4. Are you ambitious? What does that word mean to you? How does it resonate in your life?

Patrick: I guess I’m not because I think I’d be further along in my work than I feel I am.  I am very committed though and I want to work because I want to be doing what I was born to do as often as possible!

5. Random high school memory.

Patrick: My gymshorts being pulled down in front of a girl I really liked when I was in eleventh grade.

6. Favorite quote? Thoughts on it? (or not)

“Be the change you wish to see in the world” – Gandhi. Sort of speaks for itself.

7. What is something that you do everyday?

Patrick: Laugh.

8. Are you a fan of social media (Facebook, Twitter etc). If so, any particular ‘gift’ that has come of your involvement in social media?

Patrick: I do like Facebook. I found someone I grew up with in Burbank and was very close with but had lost touch with. Turns out she lives 2 blocks away from me. We had a fantastic reunion.

9. If you could have a ‘dream meal’ (no worries about calories or how the ingredients affect your body) what would it be? Who would prepare it?

Patrick: Oooh, too hard a question! Right now, I’d have to say TanTan Ramen from Goma Tai in Hawaii and they would prepare it but I would be eating it with my oldest friend, Kevin.

10. What do you like about October?

Patrick: The turn of the season; the silliness of Halloween; The smell of wood-burning chimneys!!