Explore Quotes by George Clooney

It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

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.

If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people

Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...

The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority, because without it authority often goes unchecked.

It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.

The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.

I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.

In 2003 I was saying, where are the ties [between Iraq] and al-Qaida? Where are the ties to 9/11? I knew it; where the f**k were these Democrats who said, 'We were misled'? That's the kind of thing that drives me crazy: 'We were misled.' F**k you, you weren't misled. You were afraid of being called unpatriotic.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.

I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part.

The first question is something immediate -- and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

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.

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.