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We're Always Going To Be A Society That's Going To Slow Down And Look At The Wreck On The Side If The Road If There Is One. We're Always Going To Do That Because It's Still Fascinating And It's Human Nature.

-George Clooney

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We're Always Going To

George Clooney

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We're Always Going To Be A Society That's Going To Slow Down And Look At The Wreck On The Side If The Road If There Is One. We're Always Going To Do That Because It's Still Fascinating And It's Human Nature.

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Any Topical Subject, If It's Hollywood, Will Be A Couple Of Years Later Because You've Got To Write It, Produce It And Distribute It, So Automatically You're Never Going To Be Right On The Cutting Edge Of Stories.

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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.

As You Get Older And Ease Your Way Into Being A Character Actor You Have To Be Comfortable With Where You Are In Life And Career, And I'm Very Comfortable With What I'm Doing - Working On Projects I'm Proud Of.

See, The First Thing About Actors Is, You're Just Trying To Get A Job; And You Audition And Audition And You Finally Get Them. And You Still Consider Yourself An Auditioning Actor. I Auditioned For One Fine Day, I Wasn't Offered That. So You're Still In That 'hey, I'm Just Trying To Get A Job' Thing. Then, You Get To The Point Where, If You Decide To Do It, Then They'll Make The Film. That's A Different Kind Of Responsibility, And It Usually Takes A Couple Of Films To Catch Up. And Then You Have To Actually Pay Attention To The Kind Of Films That You're Making.

I Resolve Not To Drink Liquids Before Donning The Bat-suit.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

America Can't Beat Anyone Anymore.

The Patriot Act Is Certainly A Concern; All Of Those Things Are Dangerous. I Think More Important Than Me Preaching Is That We As A Nation Have To Have The Debate. I Don't Know What The Answers Are. I Just Know That If The Idea Is To Say Talking About It Makes You Unpatriotic, I've Got To Call Your Bluff On That.

If You’re Famous, I Don’t — For The Life Of Me — I Don’t Understand Why Any Famous Person Would Ever Be On Twitter. Why On God’s Green Earth Would You Be On Twitter? Because First Of All, The Worst Thing You Can Do Is Make Yourself More Available, Right?

The People I've Respected Most In The Industry Over The Years - Paul Newman, For Instance. I Just Loved The Way He Handled Growing Old On-screen. It's Understanding That You're Now Basically A Character Actor.

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.

You Have To Remember That In The Microcosm Of Cincinnati, Ohio, Through Northern Kentucky, My Father Was A Big Star, Still Is. So That Made My Sister And Me Really Visible. Everybody Knew Us, Talked About Us.

Cincinnati Ohio

I Am The Least Qualified Person To Comment On Anyone Playing The Role Of Batman Since I So Terribly Destroyed The Part.

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I'm Not Completely Against Khakis. It's Just The Level That You Have To Wear Them. The Higher You Pull Them, Then More Excruciating It Is.

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What You Learn After You Are 40 Is That It Is Just About Plugging Up Holes In The Boat. You Just Hope You Have Enough Corks To Plug Enough Of The Holes.

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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It's Not That I Lead This Oblivious Life Where I Think I've Got Such A Great Personality That People Want To Spend Time With Me. If Someone Has A Poster Of You Or Asks For Your Autograph, Clearly You Can't Take Them Out On A Date. It's Not That Interesting If Someone Is Just Interested In You.

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We're Always Going To Be A Society That's Going To Slow Down And Look At The Wreck On The Side If The Road If There Is One. We're Always Going To Do That Because It's Still Fascinating And It's Human Nature.

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.

After A While, You Just Want Transportation, And Things Like Cool Cars Or Motorcycles Are All About Getting Attention. I Get All The Attention I Could Ever Need, So I Kind Of Like Being In A Minivan And People Not Paying So Much Attention To Me.

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.

I Have A Real Interest In Pushing Some Of The Limits Of Things That Studios Don't Want To Make.

Honestly, As You Can Imagine, It Really Isn't All That Fun Directing Yourself, Running Back And Forth To The Monitors To See If You're Terrible Or Not.

You Have Only A Short Period Of Time In Your Life To Make Your Mark, And I'm There Now.

You Learn From The Mistakes You Make And From The Mistakes Other People Make. The Truth Is, You Don't Learn From Success; You Learn From Failure.

Hosting Is Work. It Means You Don't Get To Go Up To Your Room And Disappear And Take A Nap. Like Everybody Else Does After Lunch. I'm Talking About Hosting, Not Hosting A Dinner Party, But Hosting People Staying In Your Home.

Both Of My Grandparents Died Of Lung Cancer. So I Got Quite A Lesson In The Payback Later In Life Of Smoking, And If You Keep It Up How Bad It Can Be.

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.

Directing Is Really Exciting. In The End, It's More Fun To Be The Painter Than The Paint.

I Think The Reason Why A Lot Of Young People Are Such Screw Ups... Is Oftentimes They Didn't Have The Luxury I Had Of Forming Important Relationships And Opinions And Life Experiences Before Having Success.

Important Relationships

There Are Some Scenes That You Have To Lose In Order To Win Something At The End. A Good Director Will Keep Pointing You That Way, But It Is Also Your Job As An Actor To Understand That There Are Scenes That You Do, Particularly When You Are The Lead, Where Other People Get To Come In And Steal And You Have To Let Them. I Understand That But A Good Director Always Reminds You Where Those Moments Are.

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.'

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.

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.

I Think There Are A Lot Of Great Journalists Out There. I Don't Find Much Fault In The Journalist In General; I Think Everybody Would Like To Break A Good Story.

The Actions Of President Trump Have Caused Alarm And Dismay Amongst Our Allies Abroad And Given Considerable Comfort To Our Enemies, And Whose Fault Is That? Not Really His. He Didn't Create This Situation Of Fear, He Merely Exploited It - And Rather Successfully.

It Is Not Lost On Me That I'm Spending My Honeymoon At Comic Con.

I've Been Left For Someone...all Those Things...it Was Sometimes A Surprise, And Sometimes You Saw T Coming. The Most Painful Was When I Kept Trying To Get Someone Back. But We All Make Dumb Mistakes.

I Would Vote For Johnny Depp. We Could Use A President That Could Swashbuckle.

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