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" I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means. "
George Clooney
Winning
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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?' "
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" I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.' "
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" I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything. "
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" 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. "
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" Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. "
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" 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. "
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" You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk. "
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" You can't legislate good taste. "
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" You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk. "
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" I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him. "
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" 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. "
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" Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart. "
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" I use my film-making to work through my deep questions and my deep problems. I think I could watch each film and tell you exactly which part of my psyche I'm trying to work out. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" In doing the screenplay for 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the most important thing for me was to constantly go back to wherever the opposition would argue. So I had to keep reading all the books and articles about why McCarthy is such a good guy. "
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" 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. "
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