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

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 favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

I've been a very lucky actor.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.