George Clooney Quotes

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.

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.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.

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.

Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.

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.

Without question, I wake every night five times.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well.

I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

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

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

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.

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.

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.

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.

My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.

Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.

Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

It is not lost on me that I'm spending my honeymoon at Comic Con.

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

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.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

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

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.

The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.

People know everything about everybody now.

I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

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.

My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.

I want to be the George Clooney of music.

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.

If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

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.

I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.

The directors are always sharp. It's true.

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.