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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
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John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it, you show it. So when I find a role now, I try to find a visual way to tell what the character is about rather than trying to speak about it.
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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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The first thing my agent told me in 1959 was he said you have to have something recognizable that people will remember. “What are you? Do you have cleft in your chin? You have a Jimmy Stewart kind of talk?” And I thought I don’t know what I can give them that will be different.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.
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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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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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