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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 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. "

George Clooney

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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. "

" 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. "

" I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up. "

" I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well. "

" Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart. "

" If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. "

George Clooney

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" Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes. "

George Clooney

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" You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid. "

" Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting. "

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

" I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life. "

" 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 don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it. "

George Clooney

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