It appears George Clooney‘s days as a romantic lead are far behind him.

Appearing on 60 Minutes to chat about his Broadway debut as broadcast journalist and war correspondent Edward R. Murrow, the Academy Award winner declared that he was done with romance films at this stage of his career.

“Look, I’m 63 years old,” Clooney said. “I’m not trying to compete with 25-year-old leading men. That’s not my job. I’m not doing romantic films anymore.”

Clooney’s declaration came after the program looked back at a previous profile with the star back in 2003 when he was a bachelor living with a pet pig and in the midst of his “Sexiest Man of the Year” phase. “Sure, that was big for me,” a sardonic Clooney quipped of the title.

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Clooney’s romance filmography features include 1996’s One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer, 2003’s Intolerable Cruelty with Catherine Zeta-Jones, 2009’s Up in the Air with Vera Farmiga and the most recent Ticket to Paradise with ’90s rom-com queen Julia Roberts.

Roberts has also spoken about her absence from the genre in the two decades leading up to starring opposite Clooney in Ticket to Paradise, chalking it up to the lack of substantial scripts. “People sometimes misconstrue the amount of time that’s gone by that I haven’t done a romantic comedy as my not wanting to do one,” Roberts told The New York Times. “If I had read something that I thought was that Notting Hill level of writing or My Best Friend’s Wedding level of madcap fun, I would do it. They didn’t exist until this movie that I just did.”

Clooney makes his Broadway debut in Good Night and Good Luck, the stage adaptation of the 2005 film he directed, which starred David Strathairn as the newsman. As with the film, Clooney, who played Fred Friendly in the movie, co-wrote the stage play with longtime producing and writing partner Grant Heslov.

“You wish you had done this earlier in your career?” journalist Jon Wertheim asked Clooney about his Broadway turn in the 60 Minutes segment.

“I don’t know that I could have,” Clooney said. “I didn’t do the work required to get there. There isn’t a single actor alive that wouldn’t have loved to have, you know, been on Broadway. So that’s the fun of it. It’s trickier the older you get. But why not?”

Watch Clooney’s segment in full above.