I.B. George Quotes

For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

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.

It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape.

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.

My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.

Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.

Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

It is not lost on me that I'm spending my honeymoon at Comic Con.

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.

The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.

People know everything about everybody now.

I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.

I want to be the George Clooney of music.

On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.

The directors are always sharp. It's true.

I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.

I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.

I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.

Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.

It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once.

I've always been an optimist.

I'm not completely against khakis. It's just the level that you have to wear them. The higher you pull them, then more excruciating it is.

My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business.

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

I enjoy directing. I don't know whether it's improving or not, but it's certainly evolving in different directions.

The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.