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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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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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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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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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A woman beautiful facially can negate all her beauty by no longer being feminine.
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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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