George Clooney Trying Quotations

I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

I use my film-making to work through my deep questions and my deep problems. I think I could watch each film and tell you exactly which part of my psyche I'm trying to work out.

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 think the truth is and the secret to this is in a way of trying to not be polarizing and I find that people on the left and right are - it's an incredibly polarized time. In general we're trying to find things that we can agree on and one of them for me is we have to agree on the idea that we're allowed to question authority.

We had to show him doing what he did because there are people out now trying to say what he did wasn't so bad.

I invested a pretty big chunk of money in it, and when we finally were about to announce, I was at the G-8, trying to raise money for African debt relief,

It makes for a fun year. It makes it fun because you spend a lot of time trying to get things done that you want, that you believe in, but they're hard to get done, and it's tricky, and usually you don't get the toys to play with, you know what I mean? You only get them for a very short period of time, as you and I both know. So, if you get lucky enough to have them work, then you feel you caught a break along the way. I feel like I caught a break.

What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

I've been left for someone...all those things...It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.