Top 180 George Clooney Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

— George Clooney

102. “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.”

— George Clooney

103. “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.”

— George Clooney

104. “I want to be the George Clooney of music.”

— George Clooney

105. “Getting older is not something that you’re not much concerned with.”

— George Clooney

106. “People know everything about everybody now.”

— George Clooney

107. “I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.”

— George Clooney

108. “You get better as an actor over time if you’re growing. Like singers.”

— George Clooney

109. “I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.”

— George Clooney

110. “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 twenties and thirties. No Botox for me.”

— George Clooney

111. “My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It’s something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.”

— George Clooney

112. “If you’re in the room, you’ve grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.”

— George Clooney

113. “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.”

— George Clooney

114. “Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.”

— George Clooney

115. “I’m a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.”

— George Clooney

116. “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.”

— George Clooney

117. “I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.”

— George Clooney

118. “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.”

— George Clooney

119. “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.”

— George Clooney

120. “I don’t go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you’re well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it’s like you’re a thing.”

— George Clooney

121. “The secret of directing is working with really good people.”

— George Clooney

122. “I would vote for Johnny Depp. We could use a president that could swashbuckle.”

— George Clooney

123. “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.”

— George Clooney

124. “Whatever anybody believes as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody else, it’s fair enough, and works, and I think, is real, and matters. I don’t happen to have those beliefs, as much, you know, I don’t believe in those things.”

— George Clooney

125. “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

126. “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.”

— George Clooney

127. “I resolve not to drink liquids before donning the Bat-suit.”

— George Clooney

128. “In the ’60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn’t just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.”

— George Clooney

129. “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.”

— George Clooney

130. “It’s incredibly unfair. You don’t see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.”

— George Clooney

131. “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.”

— George Clooney

132. “Anytime there’s an actual grassroots movement that isn’t funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.”

— George Clooney

133. “I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I’m never surprised by anything.”

— George Clooney

134. “I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.”

— George Clooney

135. “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?’”

— George Clooney

136. “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.”

— George Clooney

137. “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.”

— George Clooney

138. “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.”

— George Clooney

139. “The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let’s face it: Bush is just dim.”

— George Clooney

140. “I’m not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.”

— George Clooney

141. “The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.”

— George Clooney

142. “Without question, I wake every night five times.”

— George Clooney

143. “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

144. “Directing is really exciting. In the end, it’s more fun to be the painter than the paint.”

— George Clooney

145. “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.”

— George Clooney

146. “The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.”

— George Clooney

147. “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.”

— George Clooney

148. “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.”

— George Clooney

149. “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.”

— George Clooney

150. “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.”

— George Clooney