Top 180 George Clooney Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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.”

— George Clooney

152. “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.”

— George Clooney

153. “I’ve been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I’ve got a really, really, really good life.”

— George Clooney

154. “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!”

— George Clooney

155. “My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business.”

— George Clooney

156. “Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.”

— George Clooney

157. “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.”

— George Clooney

158. “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

159. “I’ve certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I’m one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.”

— George Clooney

160. “I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.”

— George Clooney

161. “It’s hard to find actors that don’t feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.”

— George Clooney

162. “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.”

— George Clooney

163. “There’s no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.”

— George Clooney

164. “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.”

— George Clooney

165. “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.”

— George Clooney

166. “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.”

— George Clooney

167. “Oceans is about glamour. I can’t go looking like a slob can I?”

— George Clooney

168. “The first thing that I learned – and I understood it at a really young age – was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.”

— George Clooney

169. “It’s fun to slap people around.”

— George Clooney

170. “It’s very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you’re just selling the hell out of it all the time. But politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it.”

— George Clooney

171. “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.”

— George Clooney

172. “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.”

— George Clooney

173. “If you’re going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven’t seen before.”

— George Clooney

174. “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.”

— George Clooney

175. “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.”

— George Clooney

176. “Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.”

— George Clooney

177. “I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up.”

— George Clooney

178. “I enjoy directing. I don’t know whether it’s improving or not, but it’s certainly evolving in different directions.”

— George Clooney

179. “We’re picking on people we can beat.”

— George Clooney

180. “I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don’t want to make.”

— George Clooney

181. “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.”

— George Clooney

182. “I’m always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.”

— George Clooney

183. “It’s not ideal to have three films coming out at once.”

— George Clooney

184. “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.”

— George Clooney

185. “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.”

— George Clooney

186. “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.”

— George Clooney

187. “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.”

— George Clooney

188. “I don’t mind what they say as long as they’re not being mean.”

— George Clooney

189. “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.”

— George Clooney

190. “Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.”

— George Clooney

191. “I don’t think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.”

— George Clooney

192. “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.”

— George Clooney

193. “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!”

— George Clooney

194. “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.”

— George Clooney

195. “I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, ‘Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.’”

— George Clooney

196. “Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.”

— George Clooney

197. “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.”

— George Clooney

198. “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.”

— George Clooney