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People Forget That I Was Married. I Love That, Will He Get Married? I Don't Talk About It Because I Don't Think About It. I Don't Ever Question Other Peoples' Versions Of How They Live Their Lives Or What They Do.

-George Clooney

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People Forget That I Was Married. I Love That, Will He Get Married? I Don't Talk About It Because I Don't Think About It. I Don't Ever Question Other Peoples' Versions Of How They Live Their Lives Or What They Do.

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

If You Don't Drink Coffee, I Am Suspicious Of Your Character And Will Not Invite You To My Italian Lake Home.

We're In A Strange State In Our World Where We Sort Of Have That Belief - And I Have It Too - That If It's Written Down There's Got To Be Some Truth In It. We Haven't Quite Got To The Spot Where You Go: "well, It Doesn't Necessarily Mean It's True." It Could Actually Be Completely Made Up And Made To Look Very Nice. So, We Have To Get To The Point Where Scandal And Those Kinds Of Things Are Less And Less Important Because Otherwise We Won't Have Anyone Willing To Run As Politicians.

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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.

Over The Years, Over The History Of Our Country, Liberals Have Stood On Many Of The Right Sides Of The Issues.

Never Get Behind Old People. Their Bodies Are Littered With Hidden Metal And They Never Seem To Appreciate How Little Time They Have Left

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.

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My Life Isn't Focused On Results. My Life Is Really Focused On The Process Of Doing All The Things I'm Doing, From Work To Relationships To Friendships To Charitable Work.

Charitable Work

Politicians Have A Tremendous Amount Of Ego To Be Able To Do It. It's Very Hard When The Product Your Selling To An Entire Country Is Yourself And You're Just Selling The Hell Out Of It All The Time.

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.

My Grandparents Back In Kentucky Owned A Tobacco Farm. So To Make Money In The Summer We Could Cut And Chop And Top And House And Strip The Tobacco.

There's A Certain Cruelty To Being On A Big Screen As Your Eyelids Start To Sag And Your Hair Falls Out And Turns Gray That You Either Have To Be Able To Handle Or Not. What You Can't Do Is Try To Force Yourself Into Roles That You Could Have Played Or Would Have Played Ten Years Earlier.

There Are Quite A Few Things That The Devil Could Tempt Me With... I Could Be Tempted By Youth If I Was Allowed To Hold On To All The Wisdom That I've Gotten. In Everything, Not Just Sports. In Life. In Acting. I'd Be Tempted By Youth Only So I Could Continue Doing It A Little Longer.

The Script For This Film Was Written 52 Years Ago By Edward R. Murrow, Who Taught Us Many Valuable Lessons About Responsibility And Always, Always Questioned Authority, Because Without It Authority Often Goes Unchecked.

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?'

Over The Course Of My Career, I've Had The Great Fortune Of Working With Some Incredible Filmmakers Who Have Protected Me And Inspired Me And Taught Me What An Honor It Is To Work In Film.

If We Turn Our Heads And Look Away And Hope That It Will All Disappear Then They Will - All Of Them, An Entire Generation Of People. And We Will Have Only History Left To Judge Us.

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It's Very Easy For People To Be Critical Of President Obama's First Term, But Let's Face It, He Didn't Exactly Inherit The Country In The Best Shape.

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Growing Up During The Cold War Period, I Always Found That, Although We Always Thought That The World Would End In Some Sort Of Nuclear Holocaust, At Some Point, Everybody Was Pretty Hopeful.

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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!

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There's A Coffin In The Back Of The Church As The Wedding Is Going On ... Look, I'm A Romantic. I Like Marriage...in The Movies.

On An Awards-show Day, I Can Play Basketball, Go In, Take A Shower And Put On A Tux - It Takes Me Three Minutes To Put On A Tux - And Be Out The Door In 15 Minutes.

The Owner Of A Local Cannabis Café Told Reporters George Clooney Was No Stranger There.

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 The Flavor Of The Month.

Flavor Of The Month

I Don't Like To Share My Personal Life... It Wouldn't Be Personal If I Shared It.

As A Director, I Do Very Few Takes, Because I Feel Like You Hire The Right Actor And They'll Do The Job Right. And The Directors That I've Worked With And Had The Best Luck With - Jason And [ Steven] Soderbergh And The Coen Brothers - All Have Been That Kind Of Director.

I Find That As You Get Older, You Start To Simplify Things In General.

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.

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.

We Try To Make Films For People [that Are] The Films That We'd Like To See. They're Not Easy To Get Made. They're Hard To Get Made. You Have To Keep The Budget Low To Get Them Made. But At The End Of The Day, I Don't Really Worry About Competition, Because I Don't Really Think Of It That Way. I Don't Feel Like I'm In A Race With Anybody.

I Certainly Direct With Confidence Even If I'm Not Confident. I Learned Early On As An Actor That Confidence Can Be Faked, And It's Not Always A Terrible Thing To Do. A Lot Of Times If People Feel You're Confident, Then They're Confident.

I'm Interested In Making Films That Ask Questions And Don't Particularly Provide Answers.

Bush, Sharon, Blair And Rice Are Names That History Will Damn.

All I Will Say Is We Get Wiser As We Get Older. And That What I Am Looking For In Life Is The Same As I Always Have; Happiness, Peacefulness And Joy. And That's All I'm Going To Say About That Because Otherwise I'd Get Into Trouble

America Can't Beat Anyone Anymore.

Growing Old On Screen Is Not For The Faint Of Heart.

I Don't Mind What They Say As Long As They're Not Being Mean.

I Didn't Enjoy Working With Bill [murray]. We Fought A Lot... But I've Let Go Of Some Of The Anger And We Seem To Get Along Fine Now.

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!!

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.

I Think It's The Most Responsible Thing You Can Do, To Have Kids. It's Not Something To Be Taken Lightly. I Don't Have That Gene That People Have To Replicate.

Everyone Makes Moral Choices That Better Themselves And Hurt Someone Else Along The Way - And Whether Or Not The Means Justify The Ends. And That, To Me, Is Universal.

Stage Actors Look Down On Movie Actors, Movie Actors Look Down On Tv Actors, And Tv Actors Look Down On... Mass Murderers.

You've Got To Remember That Films Don't Lead The Way. People Think That Films Are Trying To Lead Society. Mostly, They're Reflecting The Moods And Thoughts That Are Going On In The Country Or Around The World.

It's Fun To Slap People Around.

George Clooney Likes To Talk About Himself In The Third Person Mostly. He's Always Enjoyed It. Listen, I Don't Like To Think In Those Terms, Where You Just Have To Completely Separate Yourself One From The Other.

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.

The Best Lesson My Mom Taught Me Was How To Be Scrappy.

Love Trumps Hate. Courage Loves Fear. Right Always Trumps Wrong.

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 Think People In Italy Live Their Lives Better Than We Do. It's An Older Country, And They've Learned To Celebrate Dinner And Lunch, Whereas We Sort Of Eat As Quickly As We Can To Get Through It.

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

When You Go To Detroit You See A Town That Is Resilient, That's Just Fighting To Win Again, And There's An Energy To That. Just Watching A City Really Fighting To Get Back On Its Feet And Watching The Inner Strength Of A City Is Tremendous.

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