George talks about acting

From an interview December 2001
After 10 years of trying, George Clooney vaulted from television to the
big screen. Then he immediately started repeating mistakes that had kept
him struggling in mediocre television for so long.

Clooney said he always called himself a film actor even when he had done
mostly television. After losing out on a big film part, he concluded, "You
know what? I am a television actor. That's where I've succeeded, and
there's nothing wrong with that. So I decided I had to do better
television," Clooney told The Associated Press.

Clooney fought hard for "ER," the NBC series that launched him to stardom
and opened doors for his movie career in the mid-1990s.

"Then I started doing sort of the same mistakes in film, which is I'd just
take a job, a job and a job," just to keep working, he said. The results
were bad movies such as "Batman & Robin."

"There was a time, which was after 'Batman & Robin,' which was the right
time to go, 'OK, now if you're going to be a film actor, do better
films,"' Clooney said. "It's mostly about working with better people,
working with better scripts. That's usually the difference, I think."

Since then, Clooney, 40, has broken out with "Three Kings," "O Brother,
Where Art Thou?" and "The Perfect Storm." His new film, "Ocean's Eleven,"
re-teams him with Steven Soderbergh, who previously directed Clooney in
"Out of Sight."

"I was scared to death. I had to work with Harvey Keitel, and my character was supposed to dominate him. Now, nobody but nobody dominates Harvey on screen. I did my best, but when I look at the result, I can see him throw in a gesture, raise an eyebrow, or even take a pause, and he takes focus. That's why he's Harvey Keitel, and I'm just a lucky guy with the best job in the world."

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