I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

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.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.