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Let's get real: George Clooney is a two-time winner of People magazine's "sexiest man alive". He can woo practically any woman he wants - right?
"Um, ah, no, because I also wake up and my knees hurt and I think, 'I'm 45'."
The actor-director, who was married in the early 90s to actress Talia Balsam, is one of Hollywood's most famous bachelors.
Clooney says he feels more at home in the director's chair.
"Directing is the key to film-making. Everything else is just paint," says Clooney. Does he have a bullhorn?
"No, I'm very modern," he says. "I have someone that I yell at and they yell it out loud."
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