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" About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape. "
Later
Tape
About
" Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton. "
Me
Television
Acting
" After 'UNCLE,' I never accepted the first offer: if I wanted more money, I asked for it. A better dressing room? Four first-class tickets instead of two? I'd ask for them, and I'd often get them. "
Dressing
Money
Never
" All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo. "
Did
Myself
Solo
" Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself. "
Myself
Audience
Back
" By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. "
Supreme
Virtue
Being
" Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time. "
Cut
Today
Time
" Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me. "
Enough
Clear
Finally
" For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. "
Reward
Example
Myself
" 'Hustle' is wonderfully enjoyable because all my life, I've made an effort to be with people who can make me laugh. That original cast - Marc Warren, Jaime Murray, Robert Glenister and Adrian Lester - are all funny. So I know every day I'll have a few good laughs. "
Effort
People
Life
" Ian Fleming and Norman Felton were friends. 'U.N.C.L.E.' was basically a tongue-in-cheek 'Bond.' It wasn't quite as serious and dramatic as 'Bond,' nor did we have the budget for that. "
Friends
Bond
Budget
" I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. "
Irish
Come
Catholics
" I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater. "
Doctorate
House
American
" I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that. "
Relationships
Stage
Question
" If I could earn the living that I earn in motion pictures and television in the theater, I'd be doing theater. But you can't. Nor come even close to it. "
Pictures
Living
Television
" I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned. "
Never
Career
Direction
" I have always been adventurous and rather daring. "
Adventurous
Always
Been
" I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried. "
Close Friends
First
Now
" In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, burning homes, laying waste to the land, and indiscriminately killing friend and foe alike? "
Potential
Land
Friend
" In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force. "
Fear
Force
Dominant
" I read Superman comics when I was a kid. "
Read
Comics
Kid
" I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation. "
Believe
Trouble
Hell
" I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism. "
Life
Time
Saying
" I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College. "
College
Los Angeles
California
" I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy. "
Boy
Obsessed
Little
" I've made somewhere around 150 pictures, and a lot of them are B-pictures, I can tell you that. I'd say there's about one hundred of them I don't remember. "
Pictures
Say
Remember
" I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful. "
Unstable
Complete
Child
" I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late. "
Irish
Rather
Marry
" I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles, in comedies. "
Inspired
Kind
Wanted
" I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns. "
Studying
Home
American
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