George Hamilton quotes:

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals

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.

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.

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.

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

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.

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.

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

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.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

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

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.

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.

Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting

He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off

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.

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

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?'

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

A lot of actors flame out.

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.

At MGM there was a script cage in the basement where they'd show rushes. And I thought to myself, "How do I get into the script cage and find out what my future is?"I climbed into the script cage one night and spent the whole night in there. I saw the bowels of MGM. I saw the studio scripts that the producers had seen; the writers had just handed them in. And I started thinking this is a chance to pick my own roles.

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.

Hyypia rises like a giraffe to head the ball clear

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

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

I did a movie with Woody Allen ["Hollywood Ending" in 2002]. I only had a few days with Treat on that film. I immediately liked Treat. Treat and I had a sense of humor about the whole thing.

I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.

I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more 'dates' than me.

I found a movie called "Light in the Piazza." I finally made the movie with Olivia de Havilland and myself, but initially there was no way I could make that movie, so I went to work on becoming that character. They told me they had an Italian [actor], and I said, "That's a Cuban boy!" His name was Tomas Milan. I thought that's the craziest thing I'd ever heard: They have a Cuban who's going to play an Italian, and I can't play it because I'm an American.

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

I look at scripts as good or bad. If it's bad, it better pay a lot of money.

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.

I realized that the studios didn't really understand their own system.

I remember a meeting I had at MGM. It was at the end of their reign. They say we have you under contract, and because you're under contract, we'd like to you to work. I said, well, that seems fair. But if it's a really good movie, they were going to give it to a particular actor that was not under contract.The bottom line was they were going to pay you more if it was a bad one and pay you less if it was a good one.

I thought, better to get out while I'm still alive.

I was a hangover of that era where they'd say "Take off that medal! Is that a St. Christopher medal? You're going to lose your audience with that."

I went in to play the most corrupt politician I could possibly think of [in "The Congressman"] and to do it with a certain kind of charm.

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.

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.

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. I find that technology has made it so that we don't need to have a memory system, and as I get older I want to do things that challenge me. What could be more challenging than doing this show with a knee that's been replaced, after tearing my Achilles heel with a baker's cyst on the back of my knee? And then I have to try and dance!

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.

I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer

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

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

I've been in the sun most of my life. 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?'

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

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.

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.

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

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

The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.

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

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.

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

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

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

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

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.

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.

There came [a script called] "Dracula Sucks." Now, I liked "Dracula Sucks," but we gotta change [the title]. They said, "If you like that, you're going to like this: 'Zorro the Gay Blade.'"I decided I was going to go out and raise the money and develop my own projects. And that's what I did. I made "Love at First Bite" and I made "Zorro the Gay Blade." [Script rewriter Hal Dresner] and I put together "Zorro" in about eight weeks.

There's no telling what the score will be if this one goes in

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

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.

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.

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.

We don't really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head

What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.

When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.

When you hear Treat's [ Williams] doing a movie, or you'd like to work with Treat again, you hope the script is good. And then you find out the script is good. You go and you do it for the fun of it. And you feel like you can be proud of something.

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.

You asked me my favorite question: What happened and what did you learn from being under contract to MGM? And the answer is I know how to make movies. I understand how to do that. I've been doing that my whole life. It's just easier to raise the money yourself and then hire yourself. It's possible if you reduce your own budget a little.

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.

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

He caught that with the outside of his instep.

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

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.