The Sexy Interview: George Clooney
The Sexiest Man Alive tells all – what's on his iPod, what he learned from his family and whether he really won't marry again
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What do you love about Italy? I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it. We're constantly going – work, work, work. Italians have taught me about stopping.
What have you learned from your family? My father [broadcast journalist Nick Clooney], my mother [Nina], my aunt [the late singer Rosemary Clooney] – they all had talent, but they also had that thing that I've always admired: the willingness to get beat up for the right reasons. I always liked that, and that's one of those things you aim for in life. In my family we've all flopped pretty badly over the years at times, and that's always okay. What wouldn't be okay is to fail in integrity. When we were growing up [in Kentucky], it was the middle of the civil rights movement and we were around people who were certainly fairly bigoted at times. And I remember if someone would even just make a reference to "those people," my sister and I knew to start pounding the food if we were out at a restaurant, because my dad was going to make a scene and we were going to leave. That happened all the time. As a kid, I was kind of embarrassed by it. As an adult, I am immensely proud of it.
