George Clooney

And so we're all doing it.

We're all balancing it.

We're never getting it perfect.

And this guy clearly didn't get any of it right since he only focused on work and didn't focus at all on his family.

Well, it's a funny thing.

The last thing they're aware of is my success, you know, at all.

My son went to Halloween this year dressed as Batman, which is a character I played.

Famously the worst Batman in the history of the franchise.

And I literally said to him, you know, I was Batman.

And he was like, yeah, not really.

And he had no idea how right he really was.

You know, I think that if you're successful, you do make yourself irrelevant, and that's probably the way it's supposed to be, right?

Well, I was working—I moved to L.A.

in 1981, I guess—

And I really didn't even get a job for the first three years.

So that's a few, it's a hundred auditions that you don't get, a lot of no's.

And then I started getting small parts, guest shots on a TV show or a really low budget film.

in Budapest that no one ever saw and, you know, things like that where I was always bouncing around.

And for about 10 years, I kind of did that and some success.

You know, sometimes you get too much credit when they say you were struggling for 15 years, because the truth is, if you're working at all in my industry, you're beating the odds.