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

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

I read Superman comics when I was a kid.

Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

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.

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

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 have always been adventurous and rather daring.

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

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 one they always forget is Brad Dexter.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

You have to like the characters you play.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.