George Clooney

And I appreciated that and I took that to heart, you know.

But I have friends that, you know, my friends have always been very straightforward with me.

I'll do a project that, you know, that I'll think works and they'll say, yeah, I don't know about that one.

So I don't mind that.

It's important to have that in your life.

Well, I will say this.

I didn't do it because there was some great plan.

I did it because I had no interest in being married and having kids, and I had an interest in working.

I was very excited with having a career.

I couldn't believe I was having one.

And I had all of these friends who had been my friends when, you know, when you're a young actor and probably young anything, you know, that's when you tend to make all your friends either out of college or just after and you make a lot of good friends.

And then as time goes on and you get a job and you get married, you tend to lose a lot of them because life gets in the way.

Well, I didn't lose them.

I worked very hard at making sure we had them because probably selfishly, since I wasn't getting married and wasn't having kids, I was wanting to have this family, this sort of created family.

And I worked very hard at making sure that we all, you know, had dinners together and spent time together and checked in with one another.

And we've all managed to stay close and be friends.

It's funny.

It was a few months before I went out on a date with Amal.

And I didn't, you know, like I said, I didn't have kids.

I wasn't married.