Robert Vaughn Quotes

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Robert Vaughn

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 22, 1932

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

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

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The one they always forget is Brad Dexter.

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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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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.

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

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In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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

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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.

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I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

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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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Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton.

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In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, burning homes, laying waste to the land, and indiscriminately killing friend and foe alike?

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I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.

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My goal was always to get better roles, and in my case, performing on stage really led to great opportunities. My breakthrough came when I did Calder Willingham's 'End as a Man' on stage and was spotted by Max Arnow, who'd been the casting chief for Columbia.

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James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to.

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