George Clooney Quotes

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George Clooney

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 6, 1961

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.

George Clooney

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

George Clooney

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?'

George Clooney

There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

George Clooney

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

George Clooney

I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home.

George Clooney

Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.

George Clooney

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.

George Clooney

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid.

George Clooney