Robert Vaughn Quotations

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.

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 come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

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

Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.

The one they always forget is Brad Dexter.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

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

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.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

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

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

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

Hampton Roads is still trying to figure out what they want to do. I don't know that you can afford to let the budget continue to wait totally for Hampton Roads at this point.

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.

This would keep 98.5 percent of the budget from being held up by 1.5 percent of the budget.

The public goes for something because they like someone like a Tom Selleck. It's the performer's personality which makes a show successful.

Programs such as the Washington Search for Young Scholars help identify talented children so schools and communities can respond with challenges they need to help them fulfill their promise and to keep these students fully engaged in their education.

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 as far back as I can remember, I knew I must undertake corporeal works of mercy... they would make me feel better and want to keep on being good.

It's not clear that it will be rebuilt exactly as it was, but because of today's technology we can come as close as possible. There's no doubt it will come back.

The church was one big piece of wooden furniture. There will be plenty of steel in the next structure, that's for sure.

I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

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.

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.

I can't allow myself to be caught up in chaos. It makes me crazy.

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.

Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.

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

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.