George Clooney

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?

I was desperate, desperate when I was a young man to be my own name and make my own mark.

My father...

who was successful in Cincinnati, Ohio, in sort of a very small market, in that tiny market was well known.

And I didn't want to be Nick Clooney's son.

I wanted to be my own guy.

And everybody, I think every kid at some point has to divorce themselves from that protective sheath of their parents.

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.

I don't.

You know, but what I would say is, in fairness, some of those trappings, they're products of getting famous young, because when you're young, everybody says, well, you have to have a lawyer that takes five percent and 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.

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

If you're 33 and you're famous,