Quotes by George Clooney

“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.”

“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 grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.”

“The only failure is not to try.”

“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 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 get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'”

“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.”

“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?'”

“I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.”

“It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.”

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