Clint Eastwood Quotes

I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.

I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

It's not about you. It's about them.

I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.

I don't believe in pessimism.

As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone

The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself.

I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden.

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.

If you feel like you've got something to offer you should do it while the iron's hot.

I can't do that to myself...

You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.

I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn't. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.

When you hang a man, you better look at him.

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

I don't mind telling a dark side.

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.

I like the inspiration of the first take.

Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?