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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.

George Hamilton

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George Hamilton
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 12
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That's a yellow card for Cazoria. So the next time he's involved in Europe, he won't be.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.
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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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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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Ze soldiers are very hoppy shooting ze pipples who say that ze pipples are not hoppy.
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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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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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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 people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.
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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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