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Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

George Clooney

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George Clooney
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 6
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George Timothy Clooney
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As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.
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I've been in relationships where I've felt terribly alone. Just because you're with someone, it doesn't mean you're happy.
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Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.
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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.
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I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.
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I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.
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I don't believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys.
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I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.
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I've always been an optimist.
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I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well.
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It is not lost on me that I'm spending my honeymoon at Comic Con.
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Without question, I wake every night five times.
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I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.
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I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.
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