146 Quotes by George Hamilton

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.

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

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.

I had a good time doing ["The Congressman"], and I hope that Treat [Williams] and I plan to go flying in his [private] jet!

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.

John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it, you show it. So when I find a role now, I try to find a visual way to tell what the character is about rather than trying to speak about it.

Cary Grant was on the back lot one time doing a movie called "North by Northwest." I would see Cary outside the stage, and he would sit on a set chair and had one of those reflectors. He wanted this tan so he didn't have to use makeup.

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.

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.