George Clooney Quotes

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Saying

• I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Between

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.

  

  Rand Beers
  • May
  • Business
  • Remember

• An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • Pen

• When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Job
  • High
  • Focus

• What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Time
  • May
  • Space

• I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Democracy
  • Boards
  • Corporate

• I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Heart
  • Always
  • Denial

• I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Sky
  • Stars

• The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Important
  • Fight
  • Same

• If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Want
  • Me
  • Him

• The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Good
  • Money

• Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • Father
  • Opportunity

• Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Government
  • Powerful
  • Competition

• A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'

  

  Billy Collins
  • Different
  • Marriage
  • Sunday

• If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

  

  Kirk Douglas

• I worked at Johnny Rockets. For one day. I had to quit because they said that anytime a particular song comes on the jukebox, all the servers have to stop and do this special sing-along and dance, and I just knew that I wouldn't be returning.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Song
  • Stop
  • Dance

• I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Film
  • Sides
  • Leather

• It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

  

  George Clooney
  • Proud
  • Film
  • Building