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" I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility. "
George Clooney
Good
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" 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. "
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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 think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success. "
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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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" The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else. "
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" Shutting down the government is not how you make government work. "
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" I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid. "
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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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" You don't want to try to look younger, because you'll look wrong. You dye your hair, you look wrong. You wear a bad toupee, you look wrong. You wear makeup to hide things, you get your eyes done, you look wrong. "
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" The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim. "
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Leader
" Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties. "
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Many
" Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home. "
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You
Work
" Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work. "
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" In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time. "
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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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" 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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Like
" After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy. "
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" America can't beat anyone anymore. "
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" People know everything about everybody now. "
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Now
" 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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" I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it. "
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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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" When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt. "
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" 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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" Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting. "
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" I certainly direct with confidence even if I'm not confident. I learned early on as an actor that confidence can be faked, and it's not always a terrible thing to do. A lot of times if people feel you're confident, then they're confident. "
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" There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting. "
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" The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to. "
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Truth
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