Quotes from George Clooney


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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.


You don't want to try to look younger, because you'll look wrong. You dye your hair, you look wrong. You wear a bad toupee, you look wrong. You wear makeup to hide things, you get your eyes done, you look wrong.


Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.


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


I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.


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.


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.


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.


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'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.


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.


You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.


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.


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.


You can't legislate good taste.


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 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.


I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.


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!