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What I Try To Do Is Make Sure That The Directors I'm Working With Are On The Same Page And Want To Do The Same Kind Of Films. You Can Really Protect Yourself As An Actor If You Work With Really Good People. It Can Hide A Lot Of Flaws Along The Way.

-George Clooney

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What I Try To

George Clooney

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What I Try To Do Is Make Sure That The Directors I'm Working With Are On The Same Page And Want To Do The Same Kind Of Films. You Can Really Protect Yourself As An Actor If You Work With Really Good People. It Can Hide A Lot Of Flaws Along The Way.

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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.

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.

We're Picking On People We Can Beat.

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.

I Go On Youtube When Somebody Says To Look Something Up.

I've Met My Bride-to-be In Italy And I Will Be Married In Italy Soon, In A Couple Of Weeks. In Venice Of All Places! In Closing, I Guess What I Would Like To Say Is To My Bride-to-be, Amal, That I Love You Very Much And I Can't Wait To Be Your Husband.

[on Charity] I Try To Pick Subjects That I Can Learn About And Then Focus On And Then Do As Much As I Can. If You Have A Tremendous Amount Of Heat From The Spotlight, Then You're Able To Shine A Little Bit More Of Your Light In A Different Direction. It's Just Deflecting. My Dad Calls It A Celebrity Credit Card That You Can Cash In. I Think If You're In This Position You Should Do It.

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.

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.

It's Not That Your Back Hurts, .. You Get These Horrible, Ice Cream Brain-freeze Headaches. So I Would Go In On The Weekends And Get These Things Called Blood Patches, Where They'd Shoot Blood Into Your Spine. It Was Like Running A Marathon To Get It Done.

I Enjoy Going On Motorcycle Trips And Stopping In Small Towns And Enjoying Drinks With The Locals.

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

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.

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.

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.

Fame Can Be Very Dangerous, Because You Can Start To Enjoy That Part Of It. And That's Not The Good Part Of What I Do For A Living. The Good Part Is The Making Of Films. The Unpleasant Part Is The Fame Part, If You're Not Careful.

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?'

People Know Everything About Everybody Now.

Anytime There's An Actual Grassroots Movement That Isn't Funded By People Trying To Create A Grassroots Movement, I Find That Interesting.

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

You Can't Beat Your Enemy Anymore Through Wars; Instead You Create An Entire Generation Of People Revenge-seeking. [...] Our Opponents Are Going To Resort To Car Bombs And Suicide Attacks Because They Have No Other Way To Win. I Believe (rumsfeld) Thinks This Is A War That Can Be Won, But There Is No Such Thing Anymore. We Can't Beat Anyone Anymore.

Let's Face It: Bush Is Just Dim.

"is Art Worth Dying For?" Well I Don't Know A Single Inanimate Object That's Worth Dying For.

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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.

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.

Shutting Down The Government Is Not How You Make Government Work.

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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've Had Some Success At Writing And Directing, And I Like It. It's Infinitely More Creative Than Just Acting, And I Have Things I Want To Say And Do.

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 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

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

It Is Rather Astonishing That The United States Does Not Play Ball With The Icc, Considering Our Country Was The Beacon Of The Idea Of An International Criminal Court.

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.

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.

I Have A Picture Of A Rainy Paris Street Scene Which I Bought When I Was 33 And On My First Trip To Paris. I Go Past It When I Go Upstairs Every Night And It Reminds Me Of That Trip And Makes Me Happy

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

They Say I Was A Bad Batman, That It Was My Fault, That I Buried The Franchise. But The Truth Is, It Was A Big Project. I Was Pretty Intimidated In That World. I Did The Best I Could In The Situation I Was Given.

My Parents Were Disappointed I Didn't Finish College, And They Were Really Upset When I Went To Hollywood To Become An Actor. I Was A Big Disappointment To Them.

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.

I Enjoy Directing. I Don't Know Whether It's Improving Or Not, But It's Certainly Evolving In Different Directions.

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.

After Doing One Fine Day And Playing A Pediatrician On Er, I'll Never Have Kids. I'm Going To Have A Vasectomy.

Directing Is Much More Satisfying To Me Than Acting.

I'm The Son Of A Newsman, I Grew Up Around News, So I Can Understand The Issue, Which Is That Papers Are Losing Subscribers And They're Getting Less And Less Outlets... It's A Tricky Thing. You're Going To Have To Sell Papers. The Problem Is, There's So Little Reporting Anymore.

I Don't Tweet, I Don't Go On Facebook. I Think There's Too Much Information About All Of Us Out There. I'm Liking The Idea Of Privacy More And More.

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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.

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.

What I Learned Is That I Should Probably Read A Screenplay Every Once In A While Before I Said 'yes'. You Could Make Bad Film Out Of A Good Script, But You're Never Going To Make A Good Film Out Of A Bad Script.

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!

My Little Animal Secrets Must Remain My Little Animal Secrets. How I Do My Nails, That Is Really My Business.

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

Look, It's Very Easy To Sit Here Right Now With Some Films In The Bank That I Like And Think I Have A Shot And Feel Pretty Cocky. But, You Know, Three Years From Now, I Could Very Easily Be Saying, 'paper Or Plastic?'

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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.

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.

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The Truth Of The Matter Is The Real Story Are The People Who Rise Above All Of This Incredible Cruelty. Otherwise That Cruelty Wins.

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I Watch 'batman & Robin' From Time To Time. It's The Worst Movie I Ever Made, So It's A Good Lesson In Humility.

There's No Connection Between Al-qaeda And Iraq.

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.

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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.

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

I Don't Know If Winning At Any Cost Is Wrong Or Not. There Are Times I've Thought That The End Justified The Means.

I Enjoy Living In A Nice House And Having A Nice Life. So I Do Two Or Three Commercials Overseas A Year To Sort Of Fill In, Because They Pay Pretty Well.

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

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.

I Want To Be The George Clooney Of Music.

When You First Start Out, You Are Just Happy To Get A Job, Any Job. And As Time Goes On, Either You Move Forward Or Screech To A Halt.

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.

I Was Very Lucky To Get Well Known Much Later In Life. You Need To Have Flopped Quite A Few Times To Get A Sense Of How Little Any Of It Has To Do With You.

If People See Me Having Dinner With A Beautiful Woman, They Immediately Believe That I'm Having A Love Affair With Her. Of Course That's Rubbish. I'm Not A Playboy!

Actors Tend To Get In Their Own Way, A Lot. A Lot Of Times You Will Do Things That Will Screw Up Your Audition Process. I Was Very Bad At Auditioning, And I Always Went In To It Saying ‘god I Hope I Don’t Screw This Up.’ But At The Same Time, The Directors Are Saying, ‘god, I Hope This Person Is The Savior.’ You Have To Remember Is That The Worst Thing That Could Happen Is You Don’t Get The Job You Don’t Already Have.

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

It's Not About An Opening Weekend. It's About A Career, Building A Set Of Films You're Proud Of. Period.

I Bought A Painting In Madrid On My First Trip There Too And A Lot Of People Say, 'well It's Not The Greatest Painting' And I Say, 'it Is To Me.' Ok, You Can Look At A Beautiful Painting And Say, 'that's Beautiful' But To Me, It Feels Warmer To Fill My Home With Pictures Of Friends And Family And Paintings Of Places I've Gone. That's What I Want To Come Home To.

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.

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

I Did A Lot Of Terrible Tv Shows And Was Really Terrible In Them, And I've Done Terrible Films I Was Terrible In, But Nobody Really Noticed.

Art Takes Different Forms... But It Represents Something That Is Basic In All Of Us-our History.

Life’s Better With Company. Everybody Needs A Co-pilot.

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.

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.

Even Other Movies I Wasn't Involved With, I'd Watch Them Edit 'cause I Really Enjoy Watching Them Go Through Their Process. It's A Very Economical, Educational Process.

I Don't Sleep Much. Five To Six, I'd Say. You Could Argue That People, As They Get Older, Sleep Less - Probably Because They're Afraid Of Dying At Some Point. I Know My Parents Don't Sleep Much. I Know That I Used To Be Able To Sleep Until Noon When I Was Younger. I Couldn't Fathom Staying In Bed Until Ten Now. I Wouldn't Know What To Do Unless There's A Football Game 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.'

What Did Bush Do On 9/11? He Ran Away And Hid. Even Reagan Knew More About Leadership Than That, And He Was As Bad A Symbol Of America As I Can Think Of, Off-hand. But At Least He's Been In Enough Cowboy Movies To Know He Had To Come Out And Stand On Top Of The Rubble And Be Seen Shaking His Fist Or Something.

At The Core Of Every Religion Is The Belief That We Care For Everyone....it's Not Too Late To Help A Neighbor In Need And To Do It With The Swiftness, Expertise, Generosity And Love That Resides In The Best Of Who We Are.

My Father Taught Me About Having Principles And How To Treat People With Respect. My Aunt Also Taught Me How To Keep A Perspective On Everything That Happens To You. So You Learn To Be Humble And Not Take Your Success For Granted.

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.

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

I Don't Remember Who Wins Awards [oscars]. I've Won A Few But What I Really Remember Are Movies. I Love Films, So I'm Not Concerned About Speculation About Winning Things Because I Really Enjoy Being In Films That Last Longer Than An Opening Weekend. That's My Goal In Life.

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

I'm Not Smart Enough And I Don't Know Enough About What's Going On.

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.

You Never Really Learn Much From Hearing Yourself Talk.

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.

Peace Is A Fulltime Job. It's Protecting Civilians, Overseeing Elections, And Disarming Ex-combatants. Peace, Like War, Must Be Waged.

There's Ten Of Us, We've Been Best Friends For Thirty Years. Ten Guys. And Their Wives, And Their Kids, Are All Family Now. I'm Not Big On Keeping Up On The Phone, None Of Us Are. Some Guys I Won't Talk To For Two Months And Then You Pick Up The Phone And Hear, "so, Anyway." There's No Guilt Or Where Have You Been? Or What's Been Going On? Or Why Haven't We Talked? There's An Ease To It.

We Must Not Confuse Dissent With Disloyalty. We Must Not Walk In Fear Of One Another. We Must Not Be Driven By Fear Into An Age Of Unreason.

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

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

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.

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.

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 Directors Are Always Sharp. It's True.

Anyone Would Be Lying If They Said They Didn't Get Lonely At Times.

I'm So Lucky To Have Been Raised The Way I Have, Because My Parents Believed That Everyone Had The Right To Their Own Feelings, Opinions, And Existence; As Long As They Weren't Harming Others, You Had To Defend Those Rights.

America Can't Beat Anyone Anymore.

In The Time That We're Here Today, More Women And Children Will Die Violently In The Darfur Region Than In Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel Or Lebanon. So, After September 30, You Won't Need The Un - You Will Simply Need Men With Shovels And Bleached White Linen And Headstones.

I'm Not Quite Sure What The Santicity Of Marriage Is.

I'm A Method Actor. I Spent Years Training For The Drinking And Carousing I Had To Do In This Film.

Im Like My Mother, I Stereotype. Its Faster.

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.

If You Think Back , The Academy Was Doing A Better Job. Think About How Many More African Americans Were Nominated.we Need To Get Better At This. We Used To Be Better At It.

African American

The Simple Truth Is That Everyone Has An Opinion, Everyone Has The Right To Voice It, And They Should If They Want To.

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.

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

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.

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.

My Father Ran For Congress In 2004, And I Got A Sense That There Is No Way To Achieve Much Success Without A Certain Amount Of Compromise.

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.

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've Always Been An Optimist.

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

Venice Is The Prettiest City I've Ever Seen. It Looks Like A Disneyland Ride.

I'm The Least Metrosexual Cat You've Ever Met. I've Never Had My Fingernails Or Toenails Done, And I've Cut My Own Hair Longer Than Other People Have Cut My Hair.

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.

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.

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'm Really White Trash.

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.

I Probably Wouldn't Be A Good Spokesman For An Electric Car, Because I'll Still Get On A Private Jet, And One Flight On A Private Jet Undoes All My Electric-car Good Deeds.

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.

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.

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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I've Worked With Woody Allen Twice And He Was Like, "whatever You Want To Change, It's Up To You. If You Want To Change The Words, Make Them Your Own."

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

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.

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

Failures Are Infinitely More Instructive Than Successes.

You Get Better As An Actor Over Time If You're Growing. Like Singers.

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)

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.

Oceans Is About Glamour. I Can't Go Looking Like A Slob Can I?

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.

I Played A Father A Few Times. You Don't Have To Shoot Heroin To Play A Heroin Addict ... I'm Not Running For President But I Could Play A Candidate. Most Of The Time, You Don't Really Have To Have Those Things In Your Life To Understand What They're Like.

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

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

I'm A Liberal. I'm Confused When That Became A Bad Word...

The Best Advice I Got From My Aunt, The Great Singer Rosemary Clooney, And From My Dad, Who Was A Game Show Host And News Anchor, Was: Don't Wake Up At Seventy Years Old Sighing Over What You Should Have Tried. Just Do It, Be Willing To Fail, And At Least You Gave It A Shot. That's Echoed For Me All Through The Last Few Years.

The Truth Is My Development I Hope Is The Same Way As Everything, Which Is, I Succeed Some, I Fail Some, And I Keep Slugging Away At It. I Really Enjoy It. It's Fun.

I'm The Flavor Of The Month.

Flavor Of The Month

The Timing For Directing Is Usually Because It Takes That Long To Develop A Piece And Then Do Pre-production And Then Post-production. It Takes At Least A Couple Of Years. I Prefer Directing To Doing Other Things. Directing And Writing Seem To Be Infinitely More Creative

It's Hard To Find Actors That Don't Feel Contemporary When You Put Them In A Period Piece.

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.

So Far I've Done Two Films That Have Basically Been About Television Because I Know That World.

It's Possible For Me To Make A Bad Movie Out Of A Good Script, But I Can't Make A Good Movie From A Bad Script.

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.

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.

Acting Is One Element In A Film. Directing Is Sort Of The Painter Using All Of Those Elements - Sound And Music And Camera And Putting It All Together. And That Can Be Fun And Exciting. If You Fail, It's Incredibly Upsetting - Much More Upsetting Than When You're An Actor. But When You Succeed It's Incredibly, Incredibly Exciting, So I Like The Risk Of It All.

Sound And Music

Whatever You Do, Don’t Wake Up At 65 Years Old And Think About What You Should Have Done With Your Life.

It's Not Ideal To Have Three Films Coming Out At Once.

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 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.

I Love My Grey Hair And Wrinkles. I Love The Fact That My Face Has More Of An Edge And More Character Than It Did When I Was In My 20s And 30s. No Botox For Me.

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.

If You Try Desperately To Hang On To Something That Used To Be A Success For You, It's Going To Go Away. You Have To Change.

In The United States 95% Of The People Who Win Elections Have The Most Money. That's It. So, Money Is A Big Part Of Elections. But That Happens All The Time.

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.

I Doubt Anybody Gets Taken Seriously For Very Long. I'll Be On Some Reality Show In About Six Years Going, Hey, I Had A Great Year In 2006.

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.

Most Of The Films I've Done Haven't Done Particularly Well. I'm Surprised I'm Continuing To Work.

I Don't Believe In Happy Endings But I Believe In Happy Journeys.

If I Had Been With All The Women That I Was Said To Have Been With, I Wouldn't Have Had The Time To Shoot A Single Movie!

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.

It Is Astonishing That Gay And Lesbian Americans Are Still Treated As Second-class Citizens. I Am Confident That, Very Soon, The Laws Of This Nation Will Reflect The Basic Truth That Gay And Lesbian People - Like All Human Beings - Are Born Equal In Dignity And Rights.

I Do Happen To Have A Good Life... But I Also Like To Work. I Feel Like I Got The Brass Ring And I Got Very Lucky In This.

The Rehearsal Process In General Is About Trusting One Another.

I'm Certainly The Last Person To Give Advice On, Well, Anything.

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 Grew Up At A Time Where I Think Most People Had A Social And Political Conscience. Some Of The Biggest Changes In Our Country's Political History Happened At The Time I Was Growing Up, So I Was Raised To Be A Part Of Those Things And To Participate And I Will Continue To Do That As Much As I Can.

If You're Going To Do A Romantic Comedy It Was About Housing It In Something That We Haven't Seen Before.

I Don't Know Of An Actor That The Coen Brothers Would Come To And Say, "hey, I've Got A Movie For You To Be In, If You Want To Do It," That Would Say, "no." That's The Truth.

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.

I Think You Should Automatically Donate Your Organs Because That Would Turn The Balance Of Organ Donation In A Huge Way. I Would Donate Whatever Anybody Would Take, And I'd Probably Do The Cremation Bit.

I Like Owning Dirt. You Know, I Spent A Lot Of Time Broke When I Moved To California. So Deep In My Soul Is Still This Idea Of Being Un-employed. To Me, Owning Land Means You Could Sell It At Some Point And Have Money.

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.'

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.

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.

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 Loneliest You Will Get Is In The Most Public Of Arenas: You Will Go To A Place And End Up In The Smallest Compartment Possible, Because It's A Distraction To Everybody, And You End Up Not Getting To Enjoy It Like Everyone Else.

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