George Clooney Quotes
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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.
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The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.
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There are some scenes that you have to lose in order to win something at the end. A good director will keep pointing you that way, but it is also your job as an actor to understand that there are scenes that you do, particularly when you are the lead, where other people get to come in and steal and you have to let them. I understand that but a good director always reminds you where those moments are.
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I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.
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I've been in relationships where I've felt terribly alone. Just because you're with someone, it doesn't mean you're happy.
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I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!
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People know everything about everybody now.
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But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
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Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.
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If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.
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I want to be the George Clooney of music.
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We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.
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The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.