Top 50 George Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’ve developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.”

— George Hamilton

2. “I don’t use the phrase ‘I love you’ very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.”

— George Hamilton

3. “A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.”

— George Hamilton

4. “He’s pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off.”

— George Hamilton

5. “Real Madrid are like a rabbit in the glare of the headlights in the face of Manchester United’s attacks. But this rabbit comes with a suit of armour in the shape of two precious away goals.”

— George Hamilton

6. “The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.”

— George Hamilton

7. “The worst drug of today is not smack or pot – it’s refined sugar.”

— George Hamilton

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

— George Hamilton

9. “Women don’t like men who know they’re good looking. They’d much prefer a man who doesn’t know he’s good looking.”

— George Hamilton

10. “My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.”

— George Hamilton

11. “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.”

— George Hamilton

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

— George Hamilton

13. “I’m not saying it’s safe to go sit out in the sun all day but I don’t believe that sun is bad for you.”

— George Hamilton

14. “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.”

— George Hamilton

15. “Women love romance, but they’re not as romantic as men.”

— George Hamilton

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

— George Hamilton

17. “The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.”

— George Hamilton

18. “It’s always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.”

— George Hamilton

19. “What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.”

— George Hamilton

20. “There are two schools of thought. A manager would tell you that must make them realize you’re a dedicated actor and I took a totally different route than that. I never ever took myself seriously.”

— George Hamilton

21. “While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I’ve survived under the worst of eras and times, and I’ve always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.”

— George Hamilton

22. “A woman beautiful facially can negate all her beauty by no longer being feminine.”

— George Hamilton

23. “I’m kind of like a relic from another era.”

— George Hamilton

24. “It’s my personal opinion, and I’m not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.”

— George Hamilton

25. “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.”

— George Hamilton

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

— George Hamilton

27. “Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn’t score the goals.”

— George Hamilton

28. “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.”

— George Hamilton

29. “I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.”

— George Hamilton

30. “Referee Norlinger is outstanding in the sense that he stands out.”

— George Hamilton

31. “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.”

— George Hamilton

32. “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.”

— George Hamilton

33. “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.”

— George Hamilton

34. “It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer.”

— George Hamilton

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

— George Hamilton

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

— George Hamilton

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

— George Hamilton

38. “When I said they’d scored two goals, of course I meant they’d scored one.”

— George Hamilton

39. “We don’t really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head.”

— George Hamilton

40. “I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more ‘dates’ than me.”

— George Hamilton

41. “He caught that with the outside of his instep.”

— George Hamilton

42. “I’ve never turned down an autograph request. I’ve never not taken a picture with someone.”

— George Hamilton

43. “Basically, I’m a shy human being. Very introverted.”

— George Hamilton

44. “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.”

— George Hamilton

45. “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.”

— George Hamilton

46. “A lot of actors flame out.”

— George Hamilton

47. “I’m not somebody who runs from the press. I’m not coy. I appreciate the press I’ve had over the years.”

— George Hamilton

48. “I thought, better to get out while I’m still alive.”

— George Hamilton

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

— George Hamilton

50. “Here’s Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting.”

— George Hamilton