George Clooney Quotes

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.

I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

My job is to act, whether in indie or mainstream films.

I've played all kinds of TV roles, from cowboys to fathers of teenagers. It's helped me a lot. Of course, I was very lucky to have had good directors.

Trying to get over to the 'on camera' side of things has been hard work.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I'm in this new Showtime series called 'Ray Donovan.' I play this guy Stu Feldman who runs Paramount Pictures, so the total opposite to this character.

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.