Clint Eastwood Quotes

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.

The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.

You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.

Men must know their limitations.

I do believe in self-help.

I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.

I couldn't tell you exactly what I like about golf. Just when you think you've got it mastered it lets you know you haven't. I'm just crazy enough to do it.

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.

Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously.

I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

Things always look different from higher up.

I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.

There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.

If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.

I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.

A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."

A man's just gotta know his limits

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

I still work out on a daily basis.

I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast.

Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree.

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.

I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek'.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

You should never give up your inner self.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.

As you get older, you change certain things.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

I haven't been very active in politics.