George Hamilton Quotes

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.

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.

Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.

Referee Norlinger is outstanding in the sense that he stands out.

While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.

There's no telling what the score will be if this one goes in

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

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.

I've been in the sun most of my life. I've gone to skin doctors and they'll say to you, 'We should remove this because it's pre-cancerous,' and I'll say, 'Explain pre-cancerous to me.' I'll listen for about twenty minutes and I'll say excuse me, 'Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you're saying it could turn into cancer but it's not cancer?'

We don't really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head

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.

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.

It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.

Entertainment was transportation. You were supposed to take somebody out of their seat and bring them back in. You’re not supposed to impose your values or your supposed knowledge to manipulate or control people. That was not your job. You were not supposed to use the bully pulpit of Hollywood to pound people with ideas. You’re there to entertain.

I found a movie called “Light in the Piazza.” I finally made the movie with Olivia de Havilland and myself, but initially there was no way I could make that movie, so I went to work on becoming that character. They told me they had an Italian [actor], and I said, “That’s a Cuban boy!” His name was Tomas Milan. I thought that’s the craziest thing I’d ever heard: They have a Cuban who’s going to play an Italian, and I can’t play it because I’m an American.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.

I look at scripts as good or bad. If it's bad, it better pay a lot of money.

I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more 'dates' than me.

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

Democracy if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

Ze soldiers are very hoppy shooting ze pipples who say that ze pipples are not hoppy.

It's my personal opinion and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.

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.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.

I thought, better to get out while I'm still alive.

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.

I always felt people who took themselves seriously were kind of boring.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

Treat [Williams] and I have remained sort of like war buddies. He's a good guy. It doesn't matter who is the wingman, you just know that you work good together.

One day when I was working on a movie, I stayed at the beach a little too long, and they said, “You are going to ruin a whole day of shooting because you’re so dark. Two days ago you weren’t like this!” So I started putting that in the character; I made him suntanned all the time.

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

He caught that with the outside of his instep.

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals

A lot of actors flame out.

Hyypia rises like a giraffe to head the ball clear

Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting

Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

You asked me my favorite question: What happened and what did you learn from being under contract to MGM? And the answer is I know how to make movies. I understand how to do that. I've been doing that my whole life. It's just easier to raise the money yourself and then hire yourself. It's possible if you reduce your own budget a little.

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.

I've always had good friends and people know that I've got no ax to grind.

I remember a meeting I had at MGM. It was at the end of their reign. They say we have you under contract, and because you’re under contract, we’d like to you to work. I said, well, that seems fair. But if it’s a really good movie, they were going to give it to a particular actor that was not under contract. The bottom line was they were going to pay you more if it was a bad one and pay you less if it was a good one.

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.”

I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping. I find that technology has made it so that we don't need to have a memory system, and as I get older I want to do things that challenge me. What could be more challenging than doing this show with a knee that's been replaced, after tearing my Achilles heel with a baker's cyst on the back of my knee? And then I have to try and dance!

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.