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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton. "

" All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo. "

" I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy. "

" 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. "

" When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. "

" Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me. "

" I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late. "

" My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. "

" So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on. "

" About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape. "

" I read Superman comics when I was a kid. "

" 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. "

" I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College. "

" I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend. "

" '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. "

" I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried. "

" 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. "

" I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. "

" The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. "

" I have always been adventurous and rather daring. "

" 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. "

" For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "