I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.
So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.
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.
All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.
About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.
For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.
Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.
I've made somewhere around 150 pictures, and a lot of them are B-pictures, I can tell you that. I'd say there's about one hundred of them I don't remember.
I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.
I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.
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.
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.
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.
James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to.
I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.
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.
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?
I read Superman comics when I was a kid.
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.
