Top 180 George Clooney Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The only failure is not to try.”

— George Clooney

2. “Life’s better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.”

— George Clooney

3. “Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.”

— George Clooney

4. “I don’t believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys.”

— George Clooney

5. “You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I’m there now.”

— George Clooney

6. “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.”

— George Clooney

7. “I’m really white trash.”

— George Clooney

8. “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.”

— George Clooney

9. “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.”

— George Clooney

10. “If you don’t drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.”

— George Clooney

11. “I’m not quite sure what the santicity of marriage is.”

— George Clooney

12. “I don’t believe in heaven and hell. I don’t know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won’t allow this life – the only thing I know to exist – to be wasted.”

— George Clooney

13. “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.”

— George Clooney

14. “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.”

— George Clooney

15. “The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another.”

— George Clooney

16. “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.”

— George Clooney

17. “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.”

— George Clooney

18. “I’m certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.”

— George Clooney

19. “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.”

— George Clooney

20. “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.”

— George Clooney

21. “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.”

— George Clooney

22. “Peace is a fulltime job. It’s protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.”

— George Clooney

23. “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.”

— George Clooney

24. “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.”

— George Clooney

25. “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.”

— George Clooney

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26. “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.”

— George Clooney

27. “Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.”

— George Clooney

28. “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.”

— George Clooney

29. “I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.”

— George Clooney

30. “As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it’s not just about work, you find that you’re able to focus on other things and other people.”

— George Clooney

31. “Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.”

— George Clooney

32. “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.”

— George Clooney

33. “Anyone would be lying if they said they didn’t get lonely at times.”

— George Clooney

34. “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.”

— George Clooney

35. “America can’t beat anyone anymore.”

— George Clooney

36. “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.”

— George Clooney

37. “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.”

— George Clooney

38. “The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.”

— George Clooney

39. “Is Art worth dying for? Well I don’t know a single inanimate object that’s worth dying for.”

— George Clooney

40. “Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.”

— George Clooney

41. “The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.”

— George Clooney

42. “Let’s face it: Bush is just dim.”

— George Clooney

43. “I’m interested in making films that ask questions and don’t particularly provide answers.”

— George Clooney

44. “Most of the films I’ve done haven’t done particularly well. I’m surprised I’m continuing to work.”

— George Clooney

45. “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.”

— George Clooney

46. “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.”

— George Clooney

47. “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.”

— George Clooney

48. “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.”

— George Clooney

49. “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.”

— George Clooney

50. “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.”

— George Clooney