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Idealism loses out to cynicism in George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, which opens the Venice Film Festival. Clooney directs and acts in the political drama that features Ryan Gosling as a gung-ho press secretary swept into a sex scandal in the final days of a Democratic presidential primary in Ohio Image Credit: AP

"Turning off the television causes me to think, and once I start that vision roaring, I have a very tough time getting to sleep. I'm able to numb out. Without question, I wake every night five times," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Clooney as saying.

"Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times. The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas — you will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else," he added.