Quotes from Robert Vaughn

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 was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.

I love London. I loved it when I went there in the late '50s.

I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.

James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to.

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

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

Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton.

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.

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.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

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

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

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.

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

I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.