Clint Eastwood Quotes

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.

Every story has its demands.

For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Society is at odds with itself.

If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant.

Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.

I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the character.

Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not.

I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

We don't even know who's in the Academy.

[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.

All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.

[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.

The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, "How many roles are there for someone my age?"

Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.

I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.

If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the

Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.

If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.

If you think it's going to rain it will.

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

I've had no problem harnessing anger.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.