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" I read Superman comics when I was a kid. "
Robert Vaughn
Read
Comics
Kid
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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. "
Robert Vaughn
Three
Always
Long
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Pictures
Living
Television
" James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to. "
Robert Vaughn
Club
Were
Members
" I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater. "
Robert Vaughn
Doctorate
House
American
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Studying
Home
American
" I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend. "
Robert Vaughn
Good Friend
Very
College
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Inspired
Kind
Wanted
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Pictures
Say
Remember
" Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising. "
Robert Vaughn
Early
Course
Days
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Talent
Looks
More
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Education
Faith
Good
" When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. "
Robert Vaughn
Star
Always
TV
" I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late. "
Robert Vaughn
Irish
Rather
Marry
" Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time. "
Robert Vaughn
Cut
Today
Time
" The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. "
Robert Vaughn
Mysteries
Answers
World
" '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. "
Robert Vaughn
Effort
People
Life
" 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
Career
Direction
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Friends
Bond
Budget
" Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton. "
Robert Vaughn
Me
Television
Acting
" The one they always forget is Brad Dexter. "
Robert Vaughn
Dexter
Forget
Always
" All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo. "
Robert Vaughn
Did
Myself
Solo
" 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? "
Robert Vaughn
Potential
Land
Friend
" I have always been adventurous and rather daring. "
Robert Vaughn
Adventurous
Always
Been
" So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on. "
Robert Vaughn
Hat
Put
Just
" By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. "
Robert Vaughn
Supreme
Virtue
Being
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Me
Myself
Today
" I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. "
Robert Vaughn
Irish
Come
Catholics
" 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
Back
" My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. "
Robert Vaughn
Vietnam War
War
Speak
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Wife
Born
England