Robert Vaughn Quotes

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

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

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

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

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

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

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

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

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 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.

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.

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 went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.

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.

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

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

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

I have no idea what's going on in television because I really don't look at it.

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 the main change is the fact there are so many women involved on the set now.

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.

I think I was born in Elizabethan times.

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.

I read Superman comics when I was a kid.

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

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

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.

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

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.