Top 59 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Vaughn
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.
All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.
The one they always forget is Brad Dexter.
I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.
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.
The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.
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?
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.
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 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.
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 read Superman comics when I was a kid.
I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.
I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.
I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.
I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.
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?
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.
I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.
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.
James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to.
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 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.
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.
I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.
In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.
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.
I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.
Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.
When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.
I have always been adventurous and rather daring.
Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton.
'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.
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.
While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.
I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater.
I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.
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.
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.
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.
Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.
Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.
For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.
About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.
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.
By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.
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.
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.
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.
I think I was born in Elizabethan times.
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.
I love London. I loved it when I went there in the late '50s.
I can't allow myself to be caught up in chaos. It makes me crazy.
Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.
I think the main change is the fact there are so many women involved on the set now.
I have no idea what's going on in television because I really don't look at it.
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.
I've always just had a great feeling for London and British people.
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