George Clooney has the ability to laugh at himself, as he demonstrated when talking about his recent unpleasant restaurant encounter with Fabio.
"He's a big guy," George said of the hulking, belligerent romance novel cover-model. "There is a moment when you are actually in the argument and you're thinking, 'If I do get beaten down by Fabio, that will be far worse than the pain. I wouldn't shake that.'"
Of course George was drunk during his Fabio encounter, so I doubt he formed any thoughts as amusing, let alone coherent, as "If I do get beaten down by Fabio, that will be far worse than the pain." It was probably more like, "Why is that light so bright? Did I just piss my pants? Who's that stripper-looking chick I'm with?"