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