George Clooney Quotes

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

I'm not one of these guys who says, Now I'm on a really hot show, better quit soon before I get labeled. That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard.

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

The fear of every actor is when is this life going to be snatched away from me? Which is the day or year that the audience is going to decide 'that's it.'

At Treviso, my entire career was in danger; I lost all self-esteem and confidence.

I know I may never emerge as a leading man.

You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors you want to work with, doing little movies. There are no guarantees. I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of, if it's my last one. That's how I think about it.

I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.

You can work on a movie for years, and you won't know until you show it to an audience for the first time if it makes any sense to them at all, if they're touched, if they find it funny, so it's endlessly exciting, because failure is just right there all the time, and your chances of success don't rise that much based on the fact that you succeeded last time.

People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make.

Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.

You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down.