Quotes from George Hamilton

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

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'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?'

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.

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

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.

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.

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 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.

After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I'd never work again. So I'm going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn't let me do.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

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