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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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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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One works in this business - if one works. You do different types of movies.
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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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The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.
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Ze soldiers are very hoppy shooting ze pipples who say that ze pipples are not hoppy.
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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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The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.
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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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The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.
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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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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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He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off
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It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.
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