What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.

I'm not completely against khakis. It's just the level that you have to wear them. The higher you pull them, then more excruciating it is.

George Clooney likes to talk about himself in the third person mostly. He's always enjoyed it. Listen, I don't like to think in those terms, where you just have to completely separate yourself one from the other.

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.

Love trumps hate. Courage loves fear. Right always trumps wrong.

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.

Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.