Top 100 George Clooney Quotes
#1. The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.
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#2. I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.
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#3. When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around.
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#4. I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.
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#5. I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
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#7. It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
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#8. I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up.
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#9. It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can't take them out on a date. It's not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.
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#10. As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's not just about work, you find that you're able to focus on other things and other people.
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#11. The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority, because without it authority often goes unchecked.
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#12. If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!
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#13. George Clooney likes to talk about himself in the third person mostly. He's always enjoyed it. Listen, I don't like to think in those terms, where you just have to completely separate yourself one from the other.
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#14. I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.
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#15. I've been in relationships where I've felt terribly alone. Just because you're with someone, it doesn't mean you're happy.
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#16. I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing.
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#17. Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.
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#18. I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears ... so now I have to move.
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#19. I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.
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#20. I'm the son of a newsman, I grew up around news, so I can understand the issue, which is that papers are losing subscribers and they're getting less and less outlets ... it's a tricky thing. You're going to have to sell papers. The problem is, there's so little reporting anymore.
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#21. You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.
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#22. I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'
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#23. Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
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#24. 'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.
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#26. I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.
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#27. Art takes different forms ... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.
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#28. It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.
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#29. I enjoy directing. I don't know whether it's improving or not, but it's certainly evolving in different directions.
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#30. There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.
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#31. It is not lost on me that I'm spending my honeymoon at Comic Con.
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#33. I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.
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#34. I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women.
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#35. I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.
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#36. I do happen to have a good life ... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.
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#37. The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.
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#38. I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.
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#39. You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.
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#40. I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.
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#41. Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.
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#42. It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.
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#44. Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not.
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#45. You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting the moods and thoughts that are going on in the country or around the world.
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#46. There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.
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#47. I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.
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#48. I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.
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#49. I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.
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#50. The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.
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#51. They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.
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#52. On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.
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#53. Do you want the truth or the politically correct version? The truth is that I go plastic, it's so much easier. And I like to put the bags over my head at night when I sleep, which I think all the kids at home should try. Kidding!!
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#54. The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.
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#55. I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.
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#56. Look, it's very easy to sit here right now with some films in the bank that I like and think I have a shot and feel pretty cocky. But, you know, three years from now, I could very easily be saying, 'Paper or plastic?'
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#57. On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.
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#58. I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part,
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#59. The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'
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#62. It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once
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#63. I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups ... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.
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#64. At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.
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#65. Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.
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#66. The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
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#67. I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.
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#68. I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.
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#69. Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.
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#70. I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.
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#71. I played a father a few times. You don't have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict ... I'm not running for president but I could play a candidate. Most of the time, you don't really have to have those things in your life to understand what they're like.
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#72. As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job right. And the directors that I've worked with and had the best luck with - Jason and [ Steven] Soderbergh and the Coen brothers - all have been that kind of director.
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#73. It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape.
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#74. It's not that your back hurts, .. You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the weekends and get these things called blood patches, where they'd shoot blood into your spine. It was like running a marathon to get it done.
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#75. Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on ... mass murderers ...
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#76. I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word ...
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#77. The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
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#78. Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.
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#79. There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there.
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#80. Life's better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.
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#81. I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!
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#82. I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.
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#83. I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
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#84. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time. But politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it.
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#85. Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.
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#86. I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I've cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair.
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#87. My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.
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#88. I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
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#89. I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.
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#90. If you're in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.
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#91. When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.
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#92. If there is such a thing as platonic love between a man and a woman it is the result of a profound misunderstanding, a stifling of their true and authentic impulses.
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#93. I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.
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#94. If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!
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#95. What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.
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#96. I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot ... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.
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#97. You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.
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#99. I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.
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#100. I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.
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