Quotes from Harry Hamlin

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.