Quotes By George Clooney

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.

People know everything about everybody now.

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

I'm the flavor of the month.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!