George Clooney

I don't need to be involved in everything.

You can't pick up every fight.

You lose all of your clout if you fight every fight.

You have to pick the ones that you know well, that you're well informed on, and that you have...

You know, that you have some say and you hope that that has at least some effect.

If it doesn't, at least you've you've participated.

Well, that's never not been the case, right?

I don't give up my freedom of speech because I have a Screen Actors Guild card.

I spoke up when no one was listening, when it was just somebody at the end of a bar.

And I spoke up.

I was protesting against apartheid in 1982 when no one gave a damn who I was.

I was

I grew up in 1960s, man.

And so suddenly, you know, you get well known and it's like, okay, now don't speak.

I love watching some knucklehead, usually famous person saying, you know, shut up and dribble or, you know, any of those things.

And you go, you realize that what you're saying is a political statement, right?

And by the way, here's the point.

You get to say what you believe.

You get to stand by what you believe.

And everything people do with you is voluntary, right?