George Clooney Quotes

“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.”

— George Clooney

“If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.”

— George Clooney

“Do you want the truth or the politically correct version? The truth is that I go plastic, it's so much easier. And I like to put the bags over my head at night when I sleep, which I think all the kids at home should try. Kidding!!”

— George Clooney

“In doing the screenplay for 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the most important thing for me was to constantly go back to wherever the opposition would argue. So I had to keep reading all the books and articles about why McCarthy is such a good guy.”

— George Clooney

“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!”

— George Clooney

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

— George Clooney

You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

— George Clooney

“Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.”

— George Clooney

“I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.”

— George Clooney

“I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches.”

— George Clooney

“After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.”

— George Clooney

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.

— George Clooney

“My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.”

— George Clooney

“I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.”

— George Clooney

There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.

— George Clooney

“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.'”

— George Clooney

I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups ... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.

— George Clooney

“I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.”

— George Clooney

I'm the flavor of the month.

— George Clooney

“There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.”

— George Clooney

“I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.”

— George Clooney

“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

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.

— George Clooney

“I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.”

— George Clooney

“America can't beat anyone anymore.”

— George Clooney

“Without question, I wake every night five times.”

— George Clooney

“I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing.”

— George Clooney

“I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.”

— George Clooney

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

— George Clooney

“I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.”

— George Clooney

“The secret of directing is working with really good people.”

— George Clooney

Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.

— George Clooney

“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.”

— George Clooney

“I've worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, "Whatever you want to change, it's up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own."”

— George Clooney

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

— George Clooney

“I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.”

— George Clooney

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

— George Clooney

“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.”

— George Clooney

“Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.”

— George Clooney

“I bought a painting in Madrid on my first trip there too and a lot of people say, 'Well it's not the greatest painting' and I say, 'It is to me.' OK, you can look at a beautiful painting and say, 'That's beautiful' but to me, it feels warmer to fill my home with pictures of friends and family and paintings of places I've gone. That's what I want to come home to.”

— George Clooney

“I'm not completely against khakis. It's just the level that you have to wear them. The higher you pull them, then more excruciating it is.”

— George Clooney

“All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble”

— George Clooney

“I've met my bride-to-be in Italy and I will be married in Italy soon, in a couple of weeks. In Venice of all places! In closing, I guess what I would like to say is to my bride-to-be, Amal, that I love you very much and I can't wait to be your husband.”

— George Clooney

“Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.”

— George Clooney

“I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.”

— George Clooney

“It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.”

— George Clooney

“I have been directing and involved in producing and the creating of films for quite a while as well as acting. I always think in terms of what the director needs, and not just for this scene but for the film.”

— George Clooney

The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority, because without it authority often goes unchecked.

— George Clooney

“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.”

— George Clooney

“I've always been an optimist.”

— George Clooney