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" 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.' "
George Clooney
You
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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. "
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" Shutting down the government is not how you make government work. "
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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. "
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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'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything. "
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" Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up. "
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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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" I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid. "
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" I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple. "
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" Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing. "
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" As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of. "
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" People know everything about everybody now. "
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" 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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" Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful. "
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" America can't beat anyone anymore. "
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" They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film. "
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" One of my favorite films is 'Big Fish,' which I think is a masterpiece. "
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" Without question, I wake every night five times. "
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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. "
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