George Clooney Quotes

Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

I don't believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

The only failure is not to try.

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.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

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

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

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.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must not walk in fear of one another. We must not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

I 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.

At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.

My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.

Life’s better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.