George Clooney

“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.”

“When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.”

“Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.”

“I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.”

“I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.”

“On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.”

“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.”

“I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.”

“I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple.”

“After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.”

“In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.”

“For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.”

“The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.”

“Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.”

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

“I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.”

“My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.”

“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.”

“You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.”

“I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.”