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I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate. (George Clooney)
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. View quote
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Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues. View quote
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Republicans are good at standing by their candidate. View quote
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I've 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. View quote
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I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women. View quote
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When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt. View quote
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I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this. View quote
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Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not. View quote
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Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home. View quote
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I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on. (George Clooney)
I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up. View quote
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I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds. View quote
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When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around. View quote
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You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us. View quote
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Without question, I wake every night five times. View quote
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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 was paying attention. View quote
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Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that. View quote
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I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time. View quote
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I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do. View quote
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Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is. (George Clooney)
It's not that your back hurts, ... You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the weekends and get these things called blood patches, where they'd shoot blood into your spine. It was like running a marathon to get it done. View quote
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It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script. View quote
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My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them. View quote
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It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape. View quote
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