George Hamilton Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.

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.

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

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

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?'

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 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.

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.

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

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.

A lot of actors flame out.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.