Robert Vaughn quotes:
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I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.
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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.
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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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I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.
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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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By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.
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When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.
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While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.
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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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The one they always forget is Brad Dexter.
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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.
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I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.
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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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Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.
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I have always been adventurous and rather daring.
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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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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?
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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.
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I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.
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I have no idea what's going on in television because I really don't look at it.
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I love London. I loved it when I went there in the late '50s.
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I read Superman comics when I was a kid.
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I think I was born in Elizabethan times.
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So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.
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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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About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.
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For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.
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I don't see dramatic television because my wife is a political junkie, and we have 12 sets going night and day so she doesn't miss a word walking from room to room.
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I can't allow myself to be caught up in chaos. It makes me crazy.
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I think the main change is the fact there are so many women involved on the set now.
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I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.
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It's just amazing how television permeates the entire world from people who are just listeners and viewers to people of considerable importance who find relaxation watching television. Somebody called it a talking lamp. Television, that is.
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I've always just had a great feeling for London and British people.
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I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.
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Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.
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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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The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.
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Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.
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When you go on a movie set, there used to be one woman: script supervisor. Now they were in all capacities in addition to heading studios. So that's the biggest change of all from the early '50s, when I first started.