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After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time they said I’d never work again. So I’m going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn’t let me do.

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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When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.
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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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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 can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.
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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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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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I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.
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The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.
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It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer
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The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.
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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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The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.
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One works in this business - if one works. You do different types of movies.
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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 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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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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