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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
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Film Director
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Memphis
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George Stevens Hamilton
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The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.
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It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.
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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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I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.
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A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.
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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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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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