Quotes by George Clooney

• People know everything about everybody now.
• 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.
• 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.'
• The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
• The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.
• The only failure is not to try.
• The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
• 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.'
• There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theater 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.
• There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.
• 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.
• When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
• You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.
• I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
• It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
• You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
• As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.
• I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
• I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.
• America can't beat anyone anymore.
• But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
• 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!
• I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
• I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.
• I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.
• After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.
• 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.
• I'm really white trash.
• I'm the flavor of the month.
• I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
• I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
• I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.
• I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.
• I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'
• Don't play the odds, play the man