George Clooney
George Clooney
George Timothy Clooneyis an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting and the other for producing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth6 May 1961
CityLexington, KY
CountryUnited States of America
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In doing the screenplay for 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the most important thing for me was to constantly go back to wherever the opposition would argue. So I had to keep reading all the books and articles about why McCarthy is such a good guy.
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I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as art. I don't think of competing with actors or filmmakers at all. You do compete, in a way, at the box office, but we're far enough apart when both films are coming out that I'm not concerned with that either.
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Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.
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Is Art worth dying for? Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
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It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be as best as possible put back together. So it's an argument to say, maybe that's one of those instances, like the bust of Nefertiti, I think that should be given back [Egyptian piece currently in Neues Museum in Berlin]. It's one of those pieces you look at and think that would probably be the right thing to do.
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I like nominations because they're groupings of awards. You're saying this sort of group of people are doing interesting work, so I tend to enjoy those.
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I'm proud to be part of this Academy. I'm proud to be part of this community. I'm proud to be out of touch.
best news night
The best news of the night is that I will not be singing,
spend time
I want to spend time with my friends.
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I invested a pretty big chunk of money in it, and when we finally were about to announce, I was at the G-8, trying to raise money for African debt relief,
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Oh, man, there was this screening the other night. One of the special nights of your life where you feel ... I mean, this was at the Warner Bros. screening room and you had Dan Rather there and Tom Brokaw, Brian Williams, Andy Rooney ... Walter Cronkite gave a speech at the party afterward. And everyone seemed to like it ... Bill O'Reilly ...
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It takes me a while to get in, you also want to make sure the things you get in to are the right ones.
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It worries us, so we all wanted to show up, ... One of the reasons we're here is not to be defensive or defend this because it's operating perfectly well, we just wanted to make sure what we're doing. And I'm here to help bring focus to it.
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When I started to do it, my dad said, 'be very careful with your facts'. And we double-sourced every single scene