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" There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq. "
George Clooney
Between
Al-Qaeda
Connection
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" The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer. "
George Clooney
Suffering
Time
Good
" Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times. "
George Clooney
Anyone
Would
Said
" I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my twenties and thirties. No Botox for me. "
George Clooney
Edge
Me
Love
" 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. "
George Clooney
You
Running
Fun
" 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. "
George Clooney
Women
Time
Growing Up
" I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed. "
George Clooney
Nobody
TV Shows
Done
" 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. "
George Clooney
Days
Just
Live
" 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.' "
George Clooney
Internet
Trying
Say
" 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. "
George Clooney
Relationship
Truth
You
" 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
Government
Say
" I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him. "
George Clooney
Head
Association
Care
" 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. "
George Clooney
Life
Way
You
" I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything. "
George Clooney
Last
Anything
Person
" People know everything about everybody now. "
George Clooney
People
Everybody
Now
" 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. "
George Clooney
Opportunity
World
Funny
" 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. "
George Clooney
Think
Work
Deep
" 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. "
George Clooney
Good
Possible
Out
" I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were. "
George Clooney
Google
You
Us
" I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it. "
George Clooney
Personal
Share
Shared
" 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. "
George Clooney
Problem
Hope
Go
" On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes. "
George Clooney
Me
Play
Three
" 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. "
George Clooney
People
Easy
Country
" My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else. "
George Clooney
Great
Good
Father
" It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. "
George Clooney
Women
Men
You
" 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. "
George Clooney
Theatre
Look
Reality
" 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
You
Most
People
" My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey. "
George Clooney
Yourself
Journey
Good
" 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. "
George Clooney
Words
End
Kid
" 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. "
George Clooney
Father
Funny
Laugh
" 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. "
George Clooney
Keep Going
History
Believe