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George Clooney, born on May 6, 1961, is a renowned American actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his performances in films such as 'The Simpson's' and 'The Bourne Identity,' as well as in 'Good Night, and Good Luck' and 'Get Out.' Clooney has won multiple awards for his role in 'The Simpson's,' including the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has also been active in social and political causes, becoming a public figure and philanthropist.

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“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.”

Thinking Problem Answers Like Me Auditions

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“I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.”

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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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“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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“I'm really white trash.”

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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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“'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.”

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“My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.”

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“Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.”

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“Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.”

Republican Standing Candidates

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“The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.”

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“We're picking on people we can beat.”

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“When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.”

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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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“Without question, I wake every night five times.”

Night Five Every Night

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“I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.”

People Thinking Country Dinner Celebrate Lunch

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“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.”

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“If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!”

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“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.”

Looks Shows Reality Film Order Actors Strange Tvs Theatre Thank God Reality Shows Film Actors Theatre Actors Pecking Order

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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.”

World Bigs Given Situation Truth Is Projects Faults Buried Intimidated

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“After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.”

People Want Needs Kind Attention Car Transportation Motorcycle Cool Cars Minivans

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“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.”

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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.”

Way Character Actors Careers Proud Comfortable Projects Ease Where You Are Character Actors Where You Are In Life

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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.”

Ifs Film Enjoy Dangerous Fame Careful

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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.”

People Stills Might Products Couple Hollywood Originals Agree Dollars Billions New Products

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“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.”

Ifs Running Fun Imagine Terrible Honestly Back And Forth Running Back

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“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.”

People Mean Doe Home Rooms Party Talking Dinner Disappear Staying Working It Lunch Naps Dinner Party Your Room

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“I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!”

I Can Play Dream Girl House Nice Drinking Piano Martini Time Goes By Chopsticks

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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 don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing.”

Wells Girl Known Like You Goes On Truth Is Well Known

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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.”

Years Wells Two Three House Enjoy Pay Nice Nice Life Nice House

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“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.”

Littles Use Lessons Fame Understood Aunt Rosie

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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.”

Thinking Feels Actors Voice Like You Directors Statements Producers Terrified Casting Casting Directors

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“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 un-employed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.”

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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 20s and 30s. No Botox for me.”

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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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“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.”

People Thinking Kids Can Do Taken Responsible Genes Replicate

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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 you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever anybody would take, and I'd probably do the cremation bit.”

Thinking Way Should Turns Bits Huge Balance Organs Donation Donate Cremation Organ Donation

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“I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.”

Needs Wells Littles Known Lucky Well Known Get Well Later In Life

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Kind Persons Fighting Truth Is Married Being Married

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“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.”

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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.”

Feels My Own Type Normal Meetings Setting Settings Hunting Old Fashioned Hunted

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“I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.”

Certain Rights Morality Truth Is Shapes Size Debt Relief Disagree Inalienable Rights

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“I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.”

Want Writing Acting Creative

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“I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.”

People Whole Hands Red Cameras Crowds Shakes Reach Out Carpet Red Carpet Very Famous

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Born: May 6, 1961
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 255

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