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" I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful. "
Robert Vaughn
Unstable
Complete
Child
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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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" '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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" Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising. "
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" While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic. "
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" By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. "
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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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" 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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" I have always been adventurous and rather daring. "
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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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" 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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" I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend. "
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Very
College
" 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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" About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape. "
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" I read Superman comics when I was a kid. "
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Kid
" 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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Looks
More
" 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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God
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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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" 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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Bond
Budget
" The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. "
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Mysteries
Answers
World
" James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to. "
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Club
Were
Members
" 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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Audience
Back
" Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me. "
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Enough
Clear
Finally
" I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College. "
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Los Angeles
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" In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force. "
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Force
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" Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement. "
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Achievement
Always
Believe
" 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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Kind
Wanted
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Forget
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" So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on. "
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Put
Just
" 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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