Quotes By George Clooney

The only failure is not to try.

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

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.

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.

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

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.

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.

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.

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

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

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.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I'm really white trash.

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?'

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

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.

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.

There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

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.

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.

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.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

We're picking on people we can beat.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.