George Clooney quote: "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."

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more characte...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I g...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it.
GEORGE CLOONEY

They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it...
GEORGE CLOONEY

If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.
GEORGE CLOONEY

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

I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everyth...
GEORGE CLOONEY

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

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, wh...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with wher...
GEORGE CLOONEY

The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I jus...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whateve...
GEORGE CLOONEY

In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region t...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinkin...
GEORGE CLOONEY

The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the...
GEORGE CLOONEY

In doing the screenplay for 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the most important thing for me was...
GEORGE CLOONEY

One of my favorite films is 'Big Fish,' which I think is a masterpiece.
GEORGE CLOONEY

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protes...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ don...
GEORGE CLOONEY

Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like...
GEORGE CLOONEY

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
GEORGE CLOONEY

You don't want to try to look younger, because you'll look wrong. You dye your hair, you loo...
GEORGE CLOONEY

You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father...
GEORGE CLOONEY

[Amusingly, Clooney said in an interview that Alger Hiss was] probably ... was wrong about 99 percen...
GEORGE CLOONEY

Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts.But your head still thinks it's 23.
GEORGE CLOONEY

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to loo...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out...
GEORGE CLOONEY

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look dow...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails...
GEORGE CLOONEY

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going t...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to...
GEORGE CLOONEY

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie...
GEORGE CLOONEY

When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if y...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I use my film-making to work through my deep questions and my deep problems. I think I could watch e...
GEORGE CLOONEY

There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peace...
GEORGE CLOONEY

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the dange...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't lik...
GEORGE CLOONEY

You can't legislate good taste.
GEORGE CLOONEY

I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this fi...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I was just absorbed by the narrative,
GEORGE CLOONEY

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had t...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever an...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I think it's probably a good thing. We're the ones who talked about AIDS when it was just being whis...
GEORGE CLOONEY

What you learn after you're 40 is it's just about plugging up holes in the boat,
GEORGE CLOONEY

I couldn't understand it, [then] I realized that everything Chayefsky wrote about happened. And so, ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I?
GEORGE CLOONEY

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a...
GEORGE CLOONEY

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

I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.
GEORGE CLOONEY

The only failure is not to try.
GEORGE CLOONEY

We are talking to our friend Brad Pitt about being involved in the design.
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'm always looking at my hairline to see if it's receding or not.
GEORGE CLOONEY

We have this romantic notion of a place where you put on a jacket or a dress to go to dinner, ... We...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I don't know that I will make a dime on any of this. I could lose my shirt, ... But it will be a big...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I believe people have a right to know who they are, where they come from,
GEORGE CLOONEY

I put it on so quickly I was anxious to get it off. The depressing thing was that I could put on 35 ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

This is fun ... this is the golden time.
GEORGE CLOONEY

We've had big scandals all across the world.
GEORGE CLOONEY

The truth is this is all fun for me. I've never been here before, so it's all icing on the cake.
GEORGE CLOONEY

O'Reilly actually said some nice things about the movie,
GEORGE CLOONEY

I thought it was a good time to talk about responsibilities of the Fourth Estate and always question...
GEORGE CLOONEY

[George Clooney donated $1 million to the United Way for hurricane relief.] There isn't much any of ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

Take it easy, will ya?
GEORGE CLOONEY

This is your chance to put your considerable money where your considerable mouth is, ... Your fan.
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'm the flavor of the month.
GEORGE CLOONEY

People thought I was Tom and Nicole's bodyguard. They'd come up and go, "Is it okay if I go up and a...
GEORGE CLOONEY

You can't tell a story about infidelity without [it] . . . how can you have a hamburger without any ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

Do you want the truth or the politically correct version? The truth is that I go plastic, it's so mu...
GEORGE CLOONEY

Good Night and Good Luck,
GEORGE CLOONEY

We're picking on people we can beat.
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'm really white trash.
GEORGE CLOONEY

I resolve not to drink liquids before donning the Bat-suit.
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me....
GEORGE CLOONEY

I sort of worked backwards in a way,
GEORGE CLOONEY

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid.
GEORGE CLOONEY

After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

No. No, the judge sits first, then we sit.
GEORGE CLOONEY

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. An...
GEORGE CLOONEY

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wa...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a y...
GEORGE CLOONEY

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
GEORGE CLOONEY

This film is a tribute to the reporters who are in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Africa, in our poor city...
GEORGE CLOONEY

Ocean's Twelve.
GEORGE CLOONEY

My father told me from the get-go to treat [the movie's story] like a journalist. And he was absolut...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I'm bringing Dick Cheney as my date.
GEORGE CLOONEY

The best news of the night is that I will not be singing,
GEORGE CLOONEY

Unlike McCarthy,
GEORGE CLOONEY

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

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too m...
GEORGE CLOONEY

It's not that your back hurts, ... You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I wo...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I decided if I walk outside and get hit by a bus, everybody'll say, 'He crammed a load into 34 years...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.
GEORGE CLOONEY

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understo...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it&...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be t...
GEORGE CLOONEY

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this c...
GEORGE CLOONEY

It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality tha...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written pa...
GEORGE CLOONEY

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. I...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on t...
GEORGE CLOONEY

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. An...
GEORGE CLOONEY

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

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

The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they shoul...
GEORGE CLOONEY

On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger'...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a pri...
GEORGE CLOONEY

(M)ore important than that, (McCarthy) was wrong every time he denied people their civil liberties.
GEORGE CLOONEY

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly e...
GEORGE CLOONEY

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys ...
GEORGE CLOONEY

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just...
ROSEMARY CLOONEY

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite ...
NICK CLOONEY

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing...
NICK CLOONEY

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind ev...
NICK CLOONEY

A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated bet...
AMAL CLOONEY

If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer aw...
AMAL CLOONEY

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be ...
NICK CLOONEY

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our rela...
NICK CLOONEY

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.
AMAL CLOONEY

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and t...
NICK CLOONEY

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
ROSEMARY CLOONEY

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn&#...
ROSEMARY CLOONEY

[The screening ended with] more than polite applause, ... Well, Nick, I thought it would be pretty g...
NICK CLOONEY

If we had someone play McCarthy, people would have said, he is (portrayed as) too harsh or too evil ...
NICK CLOONEY

Some great woman is going to knock him off his feet,
NICK CLOONEY

that's what I'm waiting for.
NICK CLOONEY

When we saw the rough cut in May, I turned around and said, 'George, you got this one right,' ... Th...
NICK CLOONEY

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.
AMAL CLOONEY

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about...
AMAL CLOONEY

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by ...
NICK CLOONEY

Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.
AMAL CLOONEY

No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary d...
NICK CLOONEY

If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or s...
AMAL CLOONEY

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destro...
NICK CLOONEY

[But the film] wasn't designed specifically to be a political statement, ... I didn't make the film ...
NICK CLOONEY

You can sing Gershwin for an entire evening and have an orchestra play Gershwin for an entire evenin...
ROSEMARY CLOONEY

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI

Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN

I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS

The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE

I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ

I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE

I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL

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.

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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.

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