George Clooney Quotes

Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I used to love getting older.

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you're not immortal, when you really start seeing that certain options are closed to you forever: You're not going to be a brain surgeon; you're not going to be a ballerina.

I'm no longer in my 20s, and I think, by default, the rose-colored glasses are off.

I started out with this 'La Boheme' fantasy, but as you get older, the 'La Boheme' fantasy becomes less sexy, believe me.

I definitely do live my life at a different pace now than I used to... I feel like I'm guilty of all the overindulgences of a guy in his 20s and early 30s could've gone through, but I look back on it with great fondness. I don't have a lot of regrets.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

My perspective is so much different now, being 41. The main difference between now and then is just realizing that your time will come to an end - and that it might not be far away. You see your face change, see the gray hairs sprouting up. When you're 24, you worry about the day you'll turn 40.

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.