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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
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Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.
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I went in to play the most corrupt politician I could possibly think of [in The Congressman] and to do it with a certain kind of charm.
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This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.
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When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.
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I had a good time doing [The Congressman], and I hope that Treat [Williams] and I plan to go flying in his [private] jet!
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My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.
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Ze soldiers are very hoppy shooting ze pipples who say that ze pipples are not hoppy.
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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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There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, Why don't you just go produce it yourself?.
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You do a movie [where] you like the script [and] it has something to say that you care about. And there are certain people in this industry that you kind of stick with. Guys like [“The Congressman” producer] Fred Roos. They call you, and if you’re not working, that’s what you do.
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The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.
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Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.
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After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time they said I’d never work again. So I’m going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn’t let me do.
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The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.
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There are two schools of thought. A manager would tell you that must make them realize you're a dedicated actor and I took a totally different route than that. I never ever took myself seriously.
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Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.
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I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.
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