George Hamilton Quotes - Page 3

I realized that the studios didn't really understand their own system.

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

One works in this business - if one works. You do different types of movies.

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.

The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

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

I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

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

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.

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.

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

That's a yellow card for Cazoria. So the next time he's involved in Europe, he won't be.

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.

He caught that with the outside of his instep.

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

Hyypia rises like a giraffe to head the ball clear

The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0.