[On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.
George ClooneyI 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 ClooneyIt's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
George ClooneyIn the โ60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the womenโs rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasnโt just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.
George ClooneyI played a father a few times. You don't have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict ... I'm not running for president but I could play a candidate. Most of the time, you don't really have to have those things in your life to understand what they're like.
George Clooney