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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 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

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" I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life. "

" The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show. "

" I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency. "

" I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it. "

" 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. "

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

" If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie! "

" We're picking on people we can beat. "

" 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. "

" Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes. "

George Clooney

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" 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

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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. "

George Clooney

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" 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. "

" People know everything about everybody now. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him. "

" I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention. "

" 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. "

" Without question, I wake every night five times. "

" 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. "

" My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them. "

" 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 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. "