Clint Eastwood Quotes

Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman's breasts!

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

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

You have to go with your instincts.

I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]

You're as young as you feel. As young as you want to be. There's an old saying I heard from a friend of mine. People ask him, "Why do you look so good at your age?" He'll say, "Because I never let the old man in." And there's truth to that. It's in your mind, how far you let him come in.

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

The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.

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

Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it.

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

Scott Eastwood always came in and did a good job. And he's now graduated to better roles, and the chicks are all calling and asking where Scott is. They used to ask where I was. Now they're going, "What about Scott?"

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

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

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

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

If you can make a good picture that actually has some substance, that's doubly good nowadays 'cause most everybody else is trying to address how many CGI plates we're gonna do, what little being is gonna come in from another asteroid.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all.... if we did pass it, all of a sudden, what do you have? You have the whole tax system run by a little old lady on a home computer, doing the work of all these thousands of bureaucrats and accountants. Passing that would be amazing, wouldn't it?

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.

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. And I think we're at a point now where a lot of older women take better care of themselves, compared to the 1940s and '50s when women were programmed to figure it's all over after 30.

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone

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

A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime

No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

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.

Do ya' feel lucky, punk?

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

There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.

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

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

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

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

A lot of people when they retire, they just expire. It happens to men more than women. Women usually have great interest in the family, because the family's always growing and they're always coming to the rescue.