What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.
Clint EastwoodWhen you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
Clint EastwoodOvernight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
Clint EastwoodMy wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.
Clint EastwoodI 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