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" I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy. "
Robert Vaughn
Boy
Obsessed
Little
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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
Back
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Life
Time
Saying
" I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater. "
Robert Vaughn
Doctorate
House
American
" The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. "
Robert Vaughn
Mysteries
Answers
World
" 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
" I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late. "
Robert Vaughn
Irish
Rather
Marry
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Dressing
Money
Never
" 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
" 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'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
" 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
" 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
" All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo. "
Robert Vaughn
Did
Myself
Solo
" James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to. "
Robert Vaughn
Club
Were
Members
" I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried. "
Robert Vaughn
Close Friends
First
Now
" The one they always forget is Brad Dexter. "
Robert Vaughn
Dexter
Forget
Always
" 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? "
Robert Vaughn
I Am
God
Belief
" Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement. "
Robert Vaughn
Achievement
Always
Believe
" Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton. "
Robert Vaughn
Me
Television
Acting
" About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape. "
Robert Vaughn
Later
Tape
About
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Know
Searching
Years
" I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend. "
Robert Vaughn
Good Friend
Very
College
" 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
" Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising. "
Robert Vaughn
Early
Course
Days
" For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. "
Robert Vaughn
Reward
Example
Myself
" I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that. "
Robert Vaughn
Relationships
Stage
Question
" 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. "
Robert Vaughn
Believe
Trouble
Hell
" I have always been adventurous and rather daring. "
Robert Vaughn
Adventurous
Always
Been
" 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