Quotes

Over the years, and just like all celebrities, George Clooney has been in a lot of interviews. On this page you can find some of his most famous quotes. Put together, they should give you an insight into the person behind the actor … this is the way he thinks!

• After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I’ll never have kids. I’m going to have a vasectomy.
• An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It`s a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.
• Asked what makes a man stylish: For me, a sense of humor is number one. It`s certainly what`s most attractive. It`s not the first thing you notice at 21, but it`s the first thing you notice now. If celebrity is a credit card, I`m using my credit. My job i…
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) bombed. But I can take it. Most of the films I`ve done haven`t done particularly well. I`m surprised I`m continuing to work.
• Discussing possible casting choices Mel Gibson and Nicolas Cage for Three Kings (1999) before he had signed to the movie: “Luckily, both those guys were tied and gagged in my apartment, and that was a problem for the casting department.”
• 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!!
• Had I not got the Thursday night ten o`clock slot at “ER” (1994), if they`d put us on Friday night, then I wouldn`t have a film career. That`s luck, not my own genius, though I like to think it was.
• Here is my theory in debunking photographs in magazines. You know, the paparazzi photographs. I want to spend every single night for three months going out with a different famous actress. You know, Halle Berry one night, Salma Hayek the next, and then wa…
• I can’t do a film about oil company corruption and drive a Bronco or a Hummer. I’m not a big gas guzzler but in other ways it’s tricky.. if I’m in a private plane, obviously I’m using up a lot of gas.
• 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.
• I don`t like to share my personal life… it wouldn`t be personal if I shared it.
• I think, if you listen to the piece, I certainly did not talk about wanting to kill myself. I was talking about the idea of living for years in that kind of pain. Please don`t use my words out of context. [Responding to media reports that he had contempla...
• I was too busy breaking up Tom and Nicole`s marriage. -on the fact he had nothing to do with the breakup of Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt.
• I`m a hybrid. I succeed in both worlds. I hope that selling out on `Ocean`s Eleven` is not such a bad deal. The trade-off is, I get to go make something uncommercial that will probably lose money.
• I`m a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
• I`m the flavor of the month. 
• I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
• I'm an old-time liberal and I don't apologise for it. With Syriana we're going to get beaten up politically in some places. Fair enough, because we've taken a stand. It is not an attack on the Bush administration but it is an attack on the system that has been in place for 60 or 70 years.. oil always being at the centre of it.
• 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.
• You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
• I'm always looking at my hairline to see if it's receding or not.
• They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.
• 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?
• Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts.But your head still thinks it's 23.
• Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I?
• I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women.
• I'm too wrapped up in my work to think about children, I would need to show myself that I'm able to sustain a good long-term relationship before I could even imagine what being a father would be like.
• I'm too wrapped up in my work to think about children, I would need to show myself that I'm able to sustain a good long-term relationship before I could even imagine what being a father would be like.
• You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
• 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.
• I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
• 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.
• I can't do a film about oil company corruption and drive a Bronco or a Hummer. I'm not a big gas guzzler but in other ways it's tricky.. if I'm in a private plane, obviously I'm using up a lot of gas.
• 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.
• When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
• It`s not about an opening weekend. It`s about a career, building a set of films you`re proud of. Period.
• It`s true information is harder to get these days. When I was growing up there were three networks - three news shows, delivering the same information. You took that information into your home and you formed your own opinions. Now we have 130 channels. Yo...
• Love scenes are always weird. I know everyone says that, but they are. Like: "hey guys, hop in the sack now, would you?"
  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.
• Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.
• On who will win the Best Actor Oscar? If you want my honest opinion, I think it`s going to be Daniel Day-Lewis [for "There Will Be Blood"]. He sort of irritates all of us because he`s so good. I`ll tell you right now, I don`t like him!
• 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.
• 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.
• Speaking about the 2003 Iraq war: “You can`t beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. These days it only matters who`s in charge. Right now that`s us — for a while at least. Our opponents ar…
• The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don’t wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That’s echoed for me all through the last few years.
• 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
• 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 …
• The only failure is not to try
• The worst thing about it is when guys stake out airports with video cameras and try not to catch me doing something stupid but to make me do something stupid. Like, they push my assistant, or insult her, hoping I’ll react. If I’m stupid off my own bat, I’ll take the rap, but that other stuff’s just rotten.
• There`s no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.
• They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.
• We`re picking on people we can beat.
• 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 - this group of people - gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs …
• When you’re young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that’s the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you’re a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
• 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
• You can only get so far without discernible talent - then you either work, or use cheap publicity tricks to keep the public`s attention. Paris (Hilton) has no reason to complain if she is on the end of bad publicity.
• You got to think of things at their worst, not at their best. And Out of Sight (1998) was the first time where I had a say, and it was the first good screenplay that I`d read where I just went, `That`s it`. And even though it didn`t do really well box off…
• You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.