George Clooney Quotes (111 Quotes)

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.

I thought it was a good time to talk about responsibilities of the Fourth Estate and always questioning authority - which at times we shirk.

It's not black and white. It's complex.

Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts.But your head still thinks it's 23.

I invested a pretty big chunk of money in it, and when we finally were about to announce, I was at the G-8, trying to raise money for African debt relief,

We're picking on people we can beat.

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!

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

(M)ore important than that, (McCarthy) was wrong every time he denied people their civil liberties.

I want to spend time with my friends.

It worries us, so we all wanted to show up, ... One of the reasons we're here is not to be defensive or defend this because it's operating perfectly well, we just wanted to make sure what we're doing. And I'm here to help bring focus to it.

Sometimes we do dumb things, ... We use fear to attack civil liberties.

It takes me a while to get in, you also want to make sure the things you get in to are the right ones.

All we need is a quote from Time magazine saying, 'McCarthy is riveting.' It would be fantastic. If we can get away with it, we'll do it,

We have this romantic notion of a place where you put on a jacket or a dress to go to dinner, ... We will have some sort of dress code so that it will feel like you are walking into a more formal Las Vegas of a different age or a classic Monte Carlo casino.

It makes for a fun year. It makes it fun because you spend a lot of time trying to get things done that you want, that you believe in, but they're hard to get done, and it's tricky, and usually you don't get the toys to play with, you know what I mean You only get them for a very short period of time, as you and I both know. So, if you get lucky enough to have them work, then you feel you caught a break along the way. I feel like I caught a break.

The best news of the night is that I will not be singing,

This is fun ... this is the golden time.

I decided if I walk outside and get hit by a bus, everybody'll say, 'He crammed a load into 34 years.'

I'm really white trash.

I could end up just losing my shirt on this whole thing, but these guys are pretty good at what they do. It's going to be an adventure.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

This was an important period of time in (my father's) history, in shaping what he was as a newsman. It was the high-water mark, ... And when I started to do it, my dad said, 'Be very careful with your facts.' And so we double-sourced every single scene.

This administration, because of 911, got a pass on tough questions.

I think it's probably a good thing. We're the ones who talked about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about Civil Rights when it wasn't really popular. ... This academy gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm proud to be a part of this academy, proud to be part of this community, and proud to be out of touch.

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.

The entire society is more political than it has been in a long time. You can sit in a coffee shop in Cincinnati, and you hear people talking on either side of the aisles about political films.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

I make no apologies for that - it was a joke.

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.

People have said they were going to get married at my house. Well, I would know, and I can tell you there's not going to be a secret wedding.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

I see them together and they look very content, which makes me happy. I've met her a few times. She is a very beautiful woman and very clued up.

This film is a tribute to the reporters who are in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Africa, in our poor city of New Orleans, to bring us the truth.

This is your chance to put your considerable money where your considerable mouth is, ... Your fan.

I thought it was a good time to raise the idea of using fear to stifle political debate. The real teeth of journalism has been missing recently but there is still some good journalism out there.

I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

In 2003, a lot of us were saying, 'Where is the link between Saddam and bin Laden What does Iraq have to do with 911 Which is why it drives me crazy to hear all these Democrats saying, 'We were misled.' It makes me want to shout, 'F--- you, you weren't misled.' You were afraid of being called unpatriotic.

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.

People thought I was Tom and Nicole's bodyguard. They'd come up and go, Is it okay if I go up and ask for an autograph It was good. I'd charge 'em three bucks a person. Yeah, you gotta make some money off of that.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

People know everything about everybody now.

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.

We are a little bit out-of-touch in Hollywood. I think thats probably a good thing. We are the ones who talked about AIDS when it was only being whispered ... We talked about civil rights ... Im proud to be part of this Academy, proud to be part of this community.

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

a hero, a gold standard.