George Hamilton has been working as an actor since the early 50's, but the perfectly tanned veteran celebrity tells us he didn't have any aspiration to be in the entertainment industry. His family was more interested in it than he was. Luckily, it turned out to serve him well throughout his lifetime.

"I didn't want to be an actor. I only did that because my mother and brother wanted it, but they had no reality about it. They thought they could just be these stars," he explains.

"My mother tried to be an actress and she got a screen test and they told her it was a Southern woman with a dog and a hat who said 'You all.' My mother said, 'Southern girls wouldn't say that and she wouldn't have a dog.' They said, 'Well, this woman does.' And, she said, 'Well, I can't play that kind of character.' So, my mom's career ended before it started."

Even after Hamilton started getting success in the acting world, he says his mother and brother still didn't quite grasp the amount of hard work the job required.

"I went to work and it was a job. I'd have to be up at 6:00 a.m. They'd say, 'Well, at 12:00, Betty from Arkansas is going to be downstairs. Come down.' I'd say, 'I have to be at the studio in four hours.' And, they'd respond, 'You're not that important. Get downstairs,'" he recalls. "They didn't understand what it was all about.

For me, the movie business was work and I learned it like a muscle, but I wasn't a born actor and it wasn't what I wanted to do. I did it for them."

Emily-Fortune Feimster