Quotes by George Clooney

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.
– George Clooney
America can't beat anyone anymore.
– 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
I decided if I walk outside and get hit by a bus, everybody'll say, 'He crammed a load into 34 years.'
– George Clooney
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
I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
– George Clooney
I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.
– George Clooney
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.
– George Clooney
I resolve not to drink liquids before donning the Bat-suit.
– George Clooney
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.
– George Clooney
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
– George Clooney
I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
– George Clooney
I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.
– George Clooney
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.
– George Clooney
I'm really white trash.
– George Clooney
I'm the flavor of the month.
– George Clooney
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.
– 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
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.
– 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
The only failure is not to try.
– George Clooney
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.
– George Clooney
We moved away from what we were going after which was the al-Qaeda and there's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq, which we know, we spent a lot of time trying to prove it and it didn't happen. And we're going to go into a war and we're going to kill a lot of innocent people.
– George Clooney
We're picking on people we can beat.
– George Clooney
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.
– George Clooney
You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
– George Clooney
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.
– George Clooney
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.
– George Clooney
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
– George Clooney
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.
– George Clooney
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?'
– George Clooney
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.
– George Clooney
I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
– George Clooney
I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'
– George Clooney