George Clooney Quotes
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I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.
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Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left
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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.
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Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.
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Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.
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I played a father a few times. You don't have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict ... I'm not running for president but I could play a candidate. Most of the time, you don't really have to have those things in your life to understand what they're like.
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I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.
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I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.
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I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being un-employed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.
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George Clooney likes to talk about himself in the third person mostly. He's always enjoyed it. Listen, I don't like to think in those terms, where you just have to completely separate yourself one from the other.
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We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.
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I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.
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There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.
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If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.
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I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.
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Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.
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My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else.
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I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I've cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair.
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It's fun to slap people around.
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I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
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Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.
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The secret of directing is working with really good people.
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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.
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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.