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" When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. "
Robert Vaughn
Star
Always
TV
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" I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late. "
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" 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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" Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time. "
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" All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo. "
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Solo
" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Believe
Trouble
Hell
" I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. "
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Irish
Come
Catholics
" 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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" I have always been adventurous and rather daring. "
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Adventurous
Always
Been
" I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried. "
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First
Now
" 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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Myself
Today
" I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater. "
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Doctorate
House
American
" 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 read Superman comics when I was a kid. "
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Read
Comics
Kid
" I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College. "
Robert Vaughn
College
Los Angeles
California
" 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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Inspired
Kind
Wanted
" 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
" The one they always forget is Brad Dexter. "
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Dexter
Forget
Always
" 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
" For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. "
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Reward
Example
Myself
" 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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Potential
Land
Friend
" By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. "
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Supreme
Virtue
Being
" I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful. "
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Unstable
Complete
Child
" James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to. "
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Were
Members
" 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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Opportunities
Better
End
" Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising. "
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Early
Course
Days