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" 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
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" 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.' "
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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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" Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting. "
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" I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals. "
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" I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general. "
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" One of my favorite films is 'Big Fish,' which I think is a masterpiece. "
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" 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. "
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" The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it. "
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" 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! "
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Love
" America can't beat anyone anymore. "
George Clooney
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America
" There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there. "
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" I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it. "
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People
" 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. "
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" I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up. "
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YouTube
Says
Somebody
" On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else. "
George Clooney
Morning
Christmas
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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. "
George Clooney
Enough
Weekend
Proud
" 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. "
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Personality
Time
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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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Older
Kind
Getting Older
" I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this. "
George Clooney
Life
Feel
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" 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. "
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People
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Time
" 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'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on. "
George Clooney
About
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" 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. "
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Enjoy
Good
Job
" 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
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" But 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 don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him. "
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Head
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" I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make. "
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" 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. "
George Clooney
Hollywood
People
Worth
" 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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Theatre
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" I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches. "
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