George Hamilton People Quotations

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

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.

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.

It's really incredible -- people don't know! I think they're getting it now George.

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

When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.

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

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.

The first thing my agent told me in 1959 was he said you have to have something recognizable that people will remember. "What are you? Do you have cleft in your chin? You have a Jimmy Stewart kind of talk?" And I thought I don't know what I can give them that will be different.

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