Quotes by Robert Vaughn

• I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.
• In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.
• Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.
• 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?
• 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.
• My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
• Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.
• So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.
• 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.
• The one they always forget is Brad Dexter.
• When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.
• I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.
• The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.
• 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.
• 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.
• Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.
• I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.
• While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.
• About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.
• All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.
• 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.
• Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.
• For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.
• I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.
• I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.
• I have always been adventurous and rather daring.
• I read Superman comics when I was a kid.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.