George Hamilton
Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Attitude
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'm kind of like a relic from another era.
I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.
Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.
I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.
Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.
A lot of actors flame out.
I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.
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.
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.
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.
I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.
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.
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?'
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.
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.
I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.
I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.
A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.
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.
The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.
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.Collection: Karma
I always felt people who took themselves seriously were kind of boring.Collection: People
What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.Collection: Football
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.Collection: Men
There's no telling what the score will be if this one goes inCollection: Football
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?'Collection: Cancer
There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".Collection: Character
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.Collection: War
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.Collection: Fun
It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.Collection: People
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.Collection: Beach
There came [a script called] “Dracula Sucks.” Now, I liked “Dracula Sucks,” but we gotta change [the title]. They said, “If you like that, you’re going to like this: ‘Zorro the Gay Blade.’” I decided I was going to go out and raise the money and develop my own projects. And that’s what I did. I made “Love at First Bite” and I made “Zorro the Gay Blade.” [Script rewriter Hal Dresner] and I put together “Zorro” in about eight weeks.Collection: Gay
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Jobs
A woman beautiful facially can negate all her beauty by no longer being feminine.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: School
I'm not saying it's safe to go sit out in the sun all day but I don't believe that sun is bad for you.Collection: Believe
At MGM there was a script cage in the basement where they’d show rushes. And I thought to myself, “How do I get into the script cage and find out what my future is?” I climbed into the script cage one night and spent the whole night in there. I saw the bowels of MGM. I saw the studio scripts that the producers had seen; the writers had just handed them in. And I started thinking this is a chance to pick my own roles.Collection: Night
I did a movie with Woody Allen [“Hollywood Ending” in 2002]. I only had a few days with Treat on that film. I immediately liked Treat. Treat and I had a sense of humor about the whole thing.Collection: Hollywood
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: People
One works in this business - if one works. You do different types of movies.Collection: Different
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.”Collection: Hangover
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.Collection: Shapes
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!Collection: Memories