Robert Vaughn Quotes


"In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Fear, Beginning, Force)

"Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Achievement, Man)

"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?"
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Life, God, Belief, Actor, Man, Talk)

"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."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Beliefs, Childhood, Living, Religious, Today, Training)

"My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: War, Actor, First, Hollywood, Opposition, Vietnam)

"Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising."
- Robert Vaughn
"So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on."
- Robert Vaughn
"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."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Death, Life, God, People, Belief, Afterlife, End, Man, Opinion)

"The one they always forget is Brad Dexter."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Forget)

"When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Guest)

"I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Wife, First, Friends, Now)

"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Answers, World)

"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."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Education, Faith, Fact, Friends)

"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."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: People, Man, Questioning, Years)

"Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Money, Being)

"I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Friend, College)

"While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: College, First, Network)

"About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Years)

"All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Play)

"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."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Success, Man, Publicity)

"Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Time, Today)

"For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Discipline, Example, Reward)

"I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Irish)

"I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Thought, Career, Direction)

"I have always been adventurous and rather daring."
- Robert Vaughn
"I read Superman comics when I was a kid."
- 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."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Fear, Hell, Trouble)

"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."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Life, Time, Catholicism, Difference, Religious, Right, Saying, Wrong)

"I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: College, State)

"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."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Home, American, Politicians)

"By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries."
- Robert Vaughn
(Related: Virtue, Being)