George Clooney

The reality is I have an assistant and I have a publicist and I have an agent.

I don't have a manager.

I don't have a business manager.

But what I would say is, in fairness, some of those trappings were really, they're products of getting famous young.

Because when you're young, everybody says, well, you have to have a lawyer that takes 5%.

Then you have to have a

a manager that takes 15 or 20%, and then you have to have an agent that takes 10%, and you have to have a publicist, and they go through all these list of things that you need to do, and you do it.

You're like, oh, okay, yeah, of course, that's what I gotta do.

If you're 33 and you're famous,

The arguments are, well, now I need a publicist because I have something to publicize, so okay.

I don't need a manager because I have an agent.

I don't need a business manager because I'm pretty good at understanding my own business.

So you're in a different position when you're older.

And so you don't have to surround yourself with this coterie of people that hold everything up for you.

And I actually pride myself in being able to be scrappy and fix things along the way and take care of most things on my own.

I say that as my assistant just brought me a cup of coffee while we're talking.

Oh, sure.

Tons of times.

I remember I was working on a movie and the movie wrapped early and I stayed around with the crew and

you know, drank, and I came home.