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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.

George Hamilton

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George Hamilton
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 12
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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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I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.
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It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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