A biography for George Clooneyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.”
“There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there.”
“You can't legislate good taste.”
“You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.”
“Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The only failure is not to try.”
“I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever anybody would take, and I'd probably do the cremation bit.”
“Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.”
“It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.”
“I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.”
“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.”
“If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!”
“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.”
“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?'”
“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.”
“There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.”