Clint Eastwood famous quotes

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Eye #People #Wool

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Ideas #Trying #Attention

One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.
-- Clint Eastwood

#People #One Day #Looks

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Heart #First Love #Thinking

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Running #Country #Jobs

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

#Nice #Drama #Thinking

Do ya' feel lucky, punk?
-- Clint Eastwood

#Good Luck #Lucky #Punk

The casting is the most important thing. If you cast a picture really well a lot of things take care of themselves. You get actors that like to give a lot to the role and who appreciate the role on the same level that you do. If you miscast it, you're working an uphill battle a little bit and maybe you can come out okay but you can't always come out great.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Giving #Appreciate #Battle

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Funny #Gun #Want

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

#Iron #Hot #Like You

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Change #Reality #Hands

There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face, when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Running #Eye #Imperfection

These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a ***** about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. They go on and on with all this bulls*** about "sanctity" - don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Gay #People #Giving

Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Analyzing #Kind #Like You

Go ahead, make my day.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Badass

I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since the day I called my father and told him I was going to study acting and maybe try to see if I could do well with that, and he told me: "Don't do that. You don't want to do that, that's just dream stuff. Get a legitimate job and move forward."
-- Clint Eastwood

#Dream #Jobs #Father

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Inspirational #Motivational #Respect

I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have... or just as much certainly. I enjoy making films behind the camera equally to making them in front of the camera on all those years. I just enjoy it, that's all. I've been lucky enough to work in a profession that I have really liked and so I figured I'd just continue until someone hits me over the head and says "get out".
-- Clint Eastwood

#Years #Cameras #Lucky

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Baby #Sleep #Blow

I had always planned when I started directing in 1970 that after a few years I'd get tired of looking at myself on the screen and say: "Hey, let's not do that any more." But then every once in a while something pops up. I'm not saying it won't happen again but probably the odds get less as you set yourself for roles that fit your age group.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Tired #Odds #Years

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Success #Heart #Thinking

When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You've just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan [Freeman] says, it's a pat on the back, so great you'll take it and then move on.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Moving #Awards #Giving

I do believe in self-help.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Believe #Self #Helping

I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Chicks #Chick Flick

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Drama #Conflict #Intense

Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Philosophy #Believe #Years

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.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Fun #Hunting #Ideas

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Funny #Sarcastic #Heaven

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

#Libertarian

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Men #Prejudice #Facts

I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Thinking #Important #Trying

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Marriage #Single #Learning

I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Want #Amazed

It's always fun to talk about jazz.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Fun #Jazz

I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Character #Challenges #Trying

You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Badass #Gun #Two

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

#Dark #Looks #Theme

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Funny #Movie #Sarcastic

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

#Way #Judgment #Should

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Men #Hell #Killing

I always felt blessed that I was able to make a living in a profession [acting] that not a lot of people can make a living at, and I was able to do something I liked, rather than be in a job that I hated.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Jobs #Blessed #People

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Retirement #Age #Stories

Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Golf #Swings #Practice

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Teenage #War #Guy

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.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Writing #Fighting #Important

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Dating #Tolerance #Twenties

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Realistic #Where You Are In Life #Where You Are

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Thinking #Phones #Connections

I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Zero #Writing #Artist

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Drama #Acting #Used

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has
-- Clint Eastwood

#Boxers

I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Editing #Years #Judging

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Men #Knives #Naked

There is an interesting idea: almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to people for the rest of their lives, and how it affects not only that particular character but other characters around him as well.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Character #Ideas #People

A good man always knows his limitations.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Men #Good Man #Limitation

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

#Special #Done

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Love #Fighting #Law

Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Art #Acting #Want

Fate pulls you in different directions
-- Clint Eastwood

#Fate #Different

The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Horse #Drama #Book

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Thinking #Too Much #Ruins

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.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Fun #Age #Trying

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 left.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Idiot #Easy #Enough

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.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Fun #Blood #Years

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.
-- Clint Eastwood

#People #Wife #Ems

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?"
-- Clint Eastwood

#Thinking #Age #Cameras

Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Long #People #Shooting

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

#Wife #Libertarian #Republican

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Hate #Lying #Opposites

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.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Years #Swear #Stills

You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Country #Jobs #Politics

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.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Fun #Degrees #Aging

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Winning #Awards #Academy Awards

The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, so don't let it concern you that much. An awful lot of good movies have done badly and an awful lot of bad movies have done very well. There are no real rhymes or reasons for it. Sometimes the stars don't always align right. But if you've done the best you can, you feel pretty good about it.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Stars #Real #Good Movie

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

#Fun #Aging #Enjoy

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Discipline #People #Influence

I am not a regret type person. I don't believe in regrets. Lots of things you would do differently if you'd do it again, but you don't do it again, so you don't think about it. But that goes for life in general. You're only dealing with the knowledge you have at that time.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Regret #Believe #Thinking

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Kids #Stuff

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.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Causes #Reason #Certain

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Inspirational #Funny #Sarcastic

When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Brain #Sitting Down #Sound

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Party #Body #Biden

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn. In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Horse #Thinking #Past

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

#Discipline #Gone #Might

I never look back and think too much about my films. I've done some work I've been proud of over the years but which of them is my favourite I really don't know. I could say the last one. I've had little jumps in my career like Unforgiven possibly.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Thinking #Years #Careers

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Animal #Childhood #Innocence

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?
-- Clint Eastwood

#Moving #Thinking #Years

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
-- Clint Eastwood

#People #Mental Health #Health Care

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

#Teenager #People #Trends

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

#Birthday #Thinking #Important

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

#Watches #Film

Abuse of power isn't limited to 'bad guys' in other nations. It happens in our own country. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself. I have a reverence for individuality. I've always considered myself too individualistic to be either right-wing or left-wing. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. People should be able to be what they want to be and do what they want - as long as they're not harming other people. I am a libertarian.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Country #Views #Wings

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

#Drama #Stories #Being True

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn’t ordered to do.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Men

Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Badass #Character #Thinking

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Jobs #People #Broken

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Art #Ego #Listening

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Ideas #Promise #Sitting

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Art #Writing #Creative

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
-- Clint Eastwood

#People #President #Hoaxes