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" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Myself
Audience
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" 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. "
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" My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training. "
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" In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force. "
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" I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. "
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" My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor? "
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God
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" 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. "
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" When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. "
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Always
TV
" All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo. "
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Did
Myself
Solo
" James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to. "
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Club
Were
Members
" 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. "
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Always
Long
" The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know. "
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Know
Searching
Years
" 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. "
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Pictures
Say
Remember
" So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on. "
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Hat
Put
Just
" By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. "
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Supreme
Virtue
Being
" Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time. "
Robert Vaughn
Cut
Today
Time
" I have always been adventurous and rather daring. "
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Adventurous
Always
Been
" 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. "
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Pictures
Living
Television
" 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. "
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Life
Time
Saying
" I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy. "
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Boy
Obsessed
Little
" My goal was always to get better roles, and in my case, performing on stage really led to great opportunities. My breakthrough came when I did Calder Willingham's 'End as a Man' on stage and was spotted by Max Arnow, who'd been the casting chief for Columbia. "
Robert Vaughn
Opportunities
Better
End
" I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend. "
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Good Friend
Very
College
" 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. "
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Friends
Bond
Budget
" While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic. "
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Show
Network
Lead
" I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater. "
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Doctorate
House
American
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Later
Tape
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" 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. "
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Dressing
Money
Never
" 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. "
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People
God
End
" I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful. "
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Unstable
Complete
Child
" 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. "
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Studying
Home
American