Quotes by George Clooney

After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.

On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this strangers home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if theyre on Twitter. Its just stupid.

Ive walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and youll reach out to shake their hand and theyve got a camera in their hand. And they dont even get their hand out, because theyre recording the whole time.

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

If youre famous, I dont - for the life of me - I dont understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and Ive been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

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.

I dont 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. Its a mean thing, life.

I love children and I get along with them great. Its just that I believe if youre going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, I want a family. I dont feel that sense of urgency.

Its incredibly unfair. You dont see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasnt this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.

Ive been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.

Theres a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because its everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and its shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, You know, weve become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, Isnt it sad?

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dads sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

I probably wouldnt be a good spokesman for an electric car, because Ill still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

“In the time that were here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you wont need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.”