Robert Francis Vaughn Quotes

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

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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Enough, High

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Back, Sucess

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

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  Tags in Later, Given, Episodes

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

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  Tags in Believing, Virtue, Supreme

• I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

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  Tags in Come, Long, Line

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

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  Tags in Today, Cut, Compared

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

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  Tags in Myself, Discipline, Example

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

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  Tags in Myself, Play

• I read Superman comics when I was a kid.

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  Tags in Read, Kid, Superman

• 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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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Believe, Hell

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Career, Thought

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Saying, Between, Wrong

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Put, American

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

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  Topics in College

  Tags in State, California

• I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

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  Tags in Rather, Daring

• I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.

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  Tags in Friend

• I’ve been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Since, Boy

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

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Beginning, Force

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wife, Friends

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

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  Tags in Believe, Needed, Continuity

Robert Francis Vaughn (32)

Birth:	22nd November, 1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Robert Francis Vaughn is an Academy Award-nominated American actor noted for stage, film and television work. His best-known U.S. television series roles include the suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and wealthy detective Harry Rule in the 1970s in The Protectors.

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