George Clooney Quotes

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

George Clooney

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• Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

  

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  • Concerned

• I'm the flavor of the month.

  

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  • Months
  • Flavor

• Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.

  

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  • Together
  • Fun
  • Risk

• The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another.

  

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  • Process
  • Rehearsal

• 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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  • Done
  • Running
  • Hurt

• Whatever anybody believes as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else, it's fair enough, and works, and I think, is real, and matters. I don't happen to have those beliefs, as much, you know, I don't believe in those things.

  

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  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Long

• The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as a nation have to have the debate. I don't know what the answers are. I just know that if the idea is to say talking about it makes you unpatriotic, I've got to call your bluff on that.

  

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  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Patriotism

• 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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  • Summer
  • Cutting
  • Grandparent

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

  

  George Clooney
  • Rooms
  • Winner
  • Rings

• 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
  • Country
  • Government
  • Definitions

• Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

  

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  • Names
  • Damn
  • Rice

• 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.

  

  George Clooney
  • Character
  • Proud
  • Actors

• What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.

  

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  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Cowboy

• 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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  • Looks
  • Fit
  • Categories

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

  

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  • Country
  • Years
  • Issues

• I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

  

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  • Car
  • Deeds
  • Flight

• 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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  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• 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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  • Enjoy
  • Ends
  • Distraction

• I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)

  

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  • Responsible
  • Busy
  • Gossip

• 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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  • Home
  • Remember
  • Father

• My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business.

  

  George Clooney
  • Animal
  • Secret
  • Littles

• 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
  • World
  • Dad
  • Television

• I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.

  

  George Clooney
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Information

• My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.

  

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  • Long
  • Journey
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