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.

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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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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.

George Clooney

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears… so now I have to move.

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I’m the flavor of the month.

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

George Clooney

I’m certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

George Clooney

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.’

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We’re picking on people we can beat.

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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.

George Clooney

You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I’d like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

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

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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 care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

George Clooney

America can’t beat anyone anymore.

George Clooney

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

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theater 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.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

When you’re young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that’s the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you’re a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

George Clooney

People know everything about everybody now.

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 many parties.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn’t this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

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.

George Clooney

The only failure is not to try.

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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.’

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 look at and say, ‘Isn’t it sad?’

George Clooney

I’m really white trash.

George Clooney

There’s no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

George Clooney

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!

George Clooney

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

George Clooney

The idea that every time you do a film you’re supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, ‘Oh, it’s really tough, my character is really suffering’ -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we’ve had a good time. I don’t think you have to suffer.

George Clooney