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" Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton. "

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" You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education. "

" We shoot 'Hustle' for 12 to 16 weeks, so that's how long I'm here each year. I've always loved London. I lived here for three years back in the Seventies, when I did a TV series, 'The Protectors,' for Lew Grade. "

" Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time. "

" My wife and I have always been Anglophiles. We always felt we were born in another life in England. I was in the Elizabethan era, and she was from the Norman conquest. "

" My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. "

" 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. "

" All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo. "

" I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater. "

" 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? "

" For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. "

" In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force. "

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" Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death. "

" 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. "

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" I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy. "

" I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late. "

" Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement. "

" I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned. "

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" I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. "

" I have always been adventurous and rather daring. "

" With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune. "