Quotes from George Clooney

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

I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

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

Without question, I wake every night five times.

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.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

We're picking on people we can beat.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.

I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.

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.'

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.

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.