George Clooney

“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 unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at...”

“On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.”

“I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative vie...”

“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.”

“For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.”

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

“Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.”

“The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.”

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

“Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.”

“The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'”

“I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.”

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

“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 peopl...”

“I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.”

“The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'”

“I'm really white trash.”

“I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one wa...”

“I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.”

“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...”