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.

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

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.

For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors.

You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.

'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.

If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

If you hang with 9 broke people, you'll be the 10th.

Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.