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" I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned. "
Robert Vaughn
Never
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" In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force. "
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" About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape. "
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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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" 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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" I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater. "
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" 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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" By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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
" I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy. "
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Obsessed
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" Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time. "
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Today
Time
" My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. "
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War
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" All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo. "
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Solo
" James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to. "
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" For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. "
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" The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. "
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Mysteries
Answers
World
" 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
" I have always been adventurous and rather daring. "
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Adventurous
Always
Been
" '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. "
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Life
" I read Superman comics when I was a kid. "
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" I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. "
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" 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? "
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" I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend. "
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" 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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" Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me. "
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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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