George Clooney Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.

  George Clooney

  Morning, Father, Responsibility

• I played a father a few times. You don't have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict ... I'm not running for president but I could play a candidate. Most of the time, you don't really have to have those things in your life to understand what they're like.

  George Clooney

  Running, Father, Play

• My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

  George Clooney

  Father, Way, Compromise

• My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else.

  George Clooney

  Father, Smart, College

• The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

  George Clooney

  Mother, Father, Laughing

  "George Clooney's Rules for Living" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 2013.

• You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

  George Clooney

  Stars, Father, Cincinnati Ohio

  "George Clooney: Confessions of a Dirty Mind". Interview with Erik Hedegaard, www.rollingstone.com. November 24, 2011.

• My father taught me about having principles and how to treat people with respect. My aunt also taught me how to keep a perspective on everything that happens to you. So you learn to be humble and not take your success for granted.

  George Clooney

  Father, Humble, Aunt

  "George Clooney: 'Things are going well...'". www.mirror.co.uk. March 07, 2010.

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