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I'm Not Out Trying To Prove Anything. I'm Sort Of Finished With That, So I Get To Play In Other Sandboxes And Try And Figure Out What I Like And I'm Interested In.

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I'm Not Out Trying

George Clooney

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I'm Not Out Trying To Prove Anything. I'm Sort Of Finished With That, So I Get To Play In Other Sandboxes And Try And Figure Out What I Like And I'm Interested In.

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Inanimate Objects

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Having 'oscar Winner' On Your Tombstone Is A Great Thing.

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In The ’60s, When I Was Growing Up, One Of The Great Elements Of American Culture Was The Protest Song. There Were Songs About The Civil Rights Movement, The Women’s Rights Movement, The Antiwar Movement. It Wasn’t Just Bob Dylan, It Was Everybody At The Time.

At Some Point In Our Lifetime, Gay Marriage Won't Be An Issue, And Everyone Who Stood Against This Civil Right Will Look As Outdated As George Wallace Standing On The School Steps Keeping James Hood From Entering The University Of Alabama Because He Was Black.

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Cincinnati Ohio

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I Rarely Tell Anybody What They Should Be Doing With Their Life.

When You're Young, You Tend To Believe What People Tell You, And That's Dangerous. As You Get Older, You Learn That You're Never As Good Or As Bad As They Say You Are. If You Understand This, You Win.

I've Been In Relationships Where I've Felt Terribly Alone. Just Because You're With Someone, It Doesn't Mean You're Happy.

Yes, I Slouch. My Mother Tells Me That.

I Didn't Have Time. I Was Too Busy Breaking Up Tom Cruise And Nicole Kidman's Marriage. (on Rumours He Was Responsible For Julia Roberts And Benjamin Bratt's Break-up)

Failures Are Infinitely More Instructive Than Successes.

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.

Even The Idea Of A Fart Makes Me Laugh. Saying The Word 'fart' Makes Me Laugh. I Have Ifart On My Phone. I Have Remote Whoopee Cushions. Farts. To Me, There's Nothing Funnier.

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.

I've Been Working With Pat Robertson On Africa Debt-relief, And We Disagree On Virtually Everything Except Certain Very Specific, Inalienable Rights, And The Truth Is That Morality And Patriotism Come In All Shapes And Sizes.

Ninety Percent Of Films Are Pretty Mediocre, But They Have A Built-in Audience And Open On 3,000 Screens.

If You’re In The Room, You've Grabbed The Brass Ring. You Are All Winners.

There Are People Who Like To Work In Chaos, And Some People Work Better Under That, And Create That Sort Of Chaos, But That Makes A Set Not Necessarily Very Fun. I Like To Work On Sets That Don't Have That.

I Just Think There Are A Lot Of Celebrities Who Don't Feel That They Have A Voice. A Lot Of Actors Come From A Place Of Fear, And That's Just A General Statement About Actors. You're Terrified The Casting Director Won't Like You, You're Terrified The Producer Won't Like You, You're Terrified The Director Won't Like You, And On And On.

I Find Politics In Almost Every Country I Go To Be Incredibly Different And Incredibly Similar And I'm Never Surprised By Anything.

When You Start Out As An Actor, You Read A Script Thinking Of It At Its Best. But That's Not Usually The Case In General, And Usually What You Have To Do Is You Have To Read A Script And Think Of It At Its Worst. You Read It Going, "ok, How Bad Could This Be?" First And Foremost. You Cannot Make A Good Film Out Of A Bad Script. You Can Make A Bad Film Out Of A Good Script, But You Can't Make A Good Film Out Of A Bad Script.

I Had To Stop Going To Auditions Thinking, 'oh, I Hope They Like Me.' I Had To Go In Thinking I Was The Answer To Their Problem.

Most Of The Time, I'm Working In Places I'm Not Familiar With. Sometimes It's Slovakia, And Sometimes It's Hawaii. Not To Bash On Slovakia, But I Really Did Enjoy Hawaii.

In 2003 I Was Saying, Where Are The Ties [between Iraq] And Al-qaida? Where Are The Ties To 9/11? I Knew It; Where The F**k Were These Democrats Who Said, 'we Were Misled'? That's The Kind Of Thing That Drives Me Crazy: 'we Were Misled.' F**k You, You Weren't Misled. You Were Afraid Of Being Called Unpatriotic.

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.

When You First Start Out As An Actor, You're Just Looking For A Good Part. As Time Goes On, If You're Being Held Responsible For The Movies Themselves, You're Looking For A Good Script All Around.

When You See Hitler Burning Paintings By Salvador Dali And Picasso He's Telling You That This Time Period And These Men And This Culture Didn't Exist, And I've Seen That Happen In Other Countries, Sudan For Instance, It's Not Enough To Kill Them You Have To Destroy All Of Their Markings That They Left That Was Their History.

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