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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.

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
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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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I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.
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And in reaching out and doing these new things you get into this strange kind of shape where you are better off than if you were just resting, because you're using things that wouldn't otherwise be mute.
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It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.
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Ze soldiers are very hoppy shooting ze pipples who say that ze pipples are not hoppy.
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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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Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.
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Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes, but you're on your heels too, if you know what I mean.
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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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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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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 Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.
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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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I was a hangover of that era where they’d say “Take off that medal! Is that a St. Christopher medal? You’re going to lose your audience with that.”
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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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There are a lot of self important people who make you believe they're artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I've sat down and listened to them and just been bored.
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I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.
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