Top 180 George Clooney Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I don’t care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.”

— George Clooney

52. “If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people.”

— George Clooney

53. “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.”

— George Clooney

54. “We’re in a tight spot!”

— George Clooney

55. “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?”

— George Clooney

56. “The first question is something immediate – and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.”

— George Clooney

57. “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!”

— George Clooney

58. “After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I’ll never have kids. I’m going to have a vasectomy.”

— George Clooney

59. “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.”

— George Clooney

60. “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.”

— George Clooney

61. “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.”

— George Clooney

62. “Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left.”

— George Clooney

63. “I’m not smart enough and I don’t know enough about what’s going on.”

— George Clooney

64. “I’ve always been an optimist.”

— George Clooney

65. “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.”

— George Clooney

66. “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.”

— George Clooney

67. “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.”

— George Clooney

68. “I’m a liberal. I’m confused when that became a bad word...”

— George Clooney

69. “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.””

— George Clooney

70. “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.”

— George Clooney

71. “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.”

— George Clooney

72. “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 unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.”

— George Clooney

73. “It is not lost on me that I’m spending my honeymoon at Comic Con.”

— George Clooney

74. “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.”

— George Clooney

75. “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.”

— George Clooney

76. “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.”

— George Clooney

77. “I have been directing and involved in producing and the creating of films for quite a while as well as acting. I always think in terms of what the director needs, and not just for this scene but for the film.”

— George Clooney

78. “I’m the flavor of the month.”

— George Clooney

79. “I was watching ‘Up In The Air’ and I thought, ‘Jesus, who’s the old gray-haired guy?’ And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it’s starting to show.”

— George Clooney

80. “Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.”

— George Clooney

81. “Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it’s twenty-three.”

— George Clooney

82. “Venice is the prettiest city I’ve ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.”

— George Clooney

83. “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.”

— George Clooney

84. “Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.”

— George Clooney

85. “I’ve been in relationships where I’ve felt terribly alone. Just because you’re with someone, it doesn’t mean you’re happy.”

— George Clooney

86. “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.”

— George Clooney

87. “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!!”

— George Clooney

88. “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.”

— George Clooney

89. “Having ‘Oscar winner’ on your tombstone is a great thing.”

— George Clooney

90. “I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I’m telling you, I’ve been on the side of the road a while in that thing.”

— George Clooney

91. “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.”

— George Clooney

92. “The directors are always sharp. It’s true.”

— George Clooney

93. “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.”

— George Clooney

94. “It’s not about an opening weekend. It’s about a career, building a set of films you’re proud of. Period.”

— George Clooney

95. “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.”

— George Clooney

96. “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. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.”

— George Clooney

97. “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.”

— George Clooney

98. “I’ve walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you’ll reach out to shake their hand and they’ve got a camera in their hand. And they don’t even get their hand out, because they’re recording the whole time.”

— George Clooney

99. “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.’”

— George Clooney

100. “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.”

— George Clooney