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
goes-on scripts firsts
When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around.
thinking scripts firsts
When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.
good-movie scripts directors
It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.
scripts film said
What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could make bad film out of a good script, but you're never going to make a good film out of a bad script.
enjoy group people saying sort tend
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.
proud
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.
african chunk debt finally invested money raise trying
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,
andy bill brian cronkite dan gave life nights party rather room screening seemed special speech tom
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 ...
sure takes
It takes me a while to get in, you also want to make sure the things you get in to are the right ones.
bring defend defensive focus help operating perfectly reasons sure worries
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.
careful dad facts scene single
When I started to do it, my dad said, 'be very careful with your facts'. And we double-sourced every single scene
american-journalist films
You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.