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'Hustle' is wonderfully enjoyable because all my life, I've made an effort to be with people who can make me laugh. That original cast - Marc Warren, Jaime Murray, Robert Glenister and Adrian Lester - are all funny. So I know every day I'll have a few good laughs.

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Effort, My Life, Every Day, Robert

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

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Some, Always, Form, Continuity

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

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Complete, Wreck, Emotionally, Unstable

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

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Irish, Line, Staunch, Long Line

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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Through, Our, Setting, Halt

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

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Always, TV, TV Shows, Guest Star

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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Could, Religious, Applied, Specifically

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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Questioning, Reasons, Given, Marvelous Thing

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

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College, Very, McQueen, Good Friend

After 'UNCLE,' I never accepted the first offer: if I wanted more money, I asked for it. A better dressing room? Four first-class tickets instead of two? I'd ask for them, and I'd often get them.

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Uncle, Two, Tickets, Dressing Room

Ian Fleming and Norman Felton were friends. 'U.N.C.L.E.' was basically a tongue-in-cheek 'Bond.' It wasn't quite as serious and dramatic as 'Bond,' nor did we have the budget for that.

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Friends, Bond, Dramatic, Fleming

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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Studying, Searching, Them, Communists

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

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College, Los, Angeles, Travelled

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

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Later, Given, Tape, Episodes

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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Fact, Some, Mine, Good Education

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

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Opposition, Actor, Hollywood, Vietnam War

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

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World, Same, Theologians, Philosophers

My wife and I have always been Anglophiles. We always felt we were born in another life in England. I was in the Elizabethan era, and she was from the Norman conquest.

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England, Always, Been, Norman

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

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Clear, Finally, Very, Revealed

I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles, in comedies.

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Work, Kind, Roles, None

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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Religious, Standard, Became, Resulting

Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.

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Myself, Early Days, Saw, Penny

With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune.

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Fortune, More, Amount, Good Fortune

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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Been, Breakthrough, Roles, Casting

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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Myself, Audience, Show, Surprised

We shoot 'Hustle' for 12 to 16 weeks, so that's how long I'm here each year. I've always loved London. I lived here for three years back in the Seventies, when I did a TV series, 'The Protectors,' for Lew Grade.

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Here, TV, Weeks, Shoot

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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Thought, Career, Concerned, As Far As

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

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Dean, Were, James, Members

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

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Play, Role, Napoleon, Solo

If I could earn the living that I earn in motion pictures and television in the theater, I'd be doing theater. But you can't. Nor come even close to it.

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Doing, Living, Motion, If I Could

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