George Clooney Quotes

I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

George Clooney

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• As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Better
  • Actors
  • Ballplayers

• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Movies

• I love actors.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Actors
  • I Love

• Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Feels
  • Actors
  • Creative

• There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Interesting
  • Actors
  • Individual

• There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Hope
  • Actors

• In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Three

• Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Actors
  • Fight
  • Possible

• Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.

  

  Mallory Factor
  • Bad
  • Focus
  • Actors

• Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Work
  • See
  • Directors

• You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Actors
  • Illusions
  • Pigeons

• Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Actors
  • Healthy
  • Repeats

• I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Understand
  • Directors
  • Identification

• When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Knows
  • Stills
  • Ifs

• I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • True
  • Movie
  • Acting

• David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Hate
  • Mean
  • Directors

• We were very creative. There was nothing contrived about us. No one telling us what to do, what to wear, what to sing. We wrote our own material, chose our producers.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Creative
  • Producers
  • Wear

• The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Way
  • Play
  • Winning

• That the human condition was so obviously exposed to the blind fury of chance that to trust in a God, a Jesus, the Holy Spirit—this last a completely superfluous entity, it was there only to make up a trinity, notoriously nobler than the mere binomial father-son—was the same thing as collecting trading cards while the city burns in the fires of hell.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Chance
  • Trading
  • Entity

• It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Differences

• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  

  George Clooney
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Producers