Quotes By George Clooney

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.

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.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

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.

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 suffer.

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.

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.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

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

The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'

I'm really white trash.

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 have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

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.'

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

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!

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

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

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.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

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.

We're picking on people we can beat.

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.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

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.

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

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.