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It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.

George Hamilton

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George Hamilton
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 12
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Television Actor
Memphis
Tennessee
George Stevens Hamilton
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To my mind, there are no unattractive women only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.
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When you hear Treat's [ Williams] doing a movie, or you'd like to work with Treat again, you hope the script is good. And then you find out the script is good. You go and you do it for the fun of it. And you feel like you can be proud of something.
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