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» I read Superman comics when I was a kid.

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

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

» 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.

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

» 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.

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

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

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

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

» 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.

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

» The one they always forget is Brad Dexter.

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

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

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

» In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

» 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.

» 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.

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

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

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

» 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 have always been adventurous and rather daring.

» 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.

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