Top 100 Clint Eastwood Quotes
#1. Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.
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#2. I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show.
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#3. At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.
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#4. Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.
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#5. I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.
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#7. And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.
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#8. 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.
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#9. I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I'd like to see somebody who's going in the office. In fact, I'd like to not see them because that way you'd be sure that they'd be working.
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#10. 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.
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#12. In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.
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#13. [ 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.
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#16. I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.
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#17. Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
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#18. It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
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#19. I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.
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#21. Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and I make the films I believe in. If the public follows me, that's wonderful. If it doesn't follow, c'est la vie.
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#22. Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
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#24. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.
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#25. I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.
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#28. The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.
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#29. I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.
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#30. Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
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#31. Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.
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#32. If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
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#34. 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.
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#36. Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.
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#37. Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
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#38. There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
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#39. I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.
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#41. Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.
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#43. Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage ... if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves.
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#46. 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.
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#47. When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
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#49. My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.
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#50. I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
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#52. I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.
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#53. 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.
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#54. If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off
you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.
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#55. My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
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#57. I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.
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#58. It's a hell of a thing; killin' a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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.
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#63. I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#67. 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?
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#68. An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.
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#71. I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go ... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'
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#72. 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.
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#73. I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?
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#74. I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.
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#75. Now you've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? - Inspector Harry Callahan
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#76. You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools - and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are extremely valuable They work like a charm. I've used them all along and still do.
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#77. 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.
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#79. 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.
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#80. Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously.
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#81. When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.
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#82. Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously
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#84. 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.
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#85. Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?
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#86. Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.
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#87. I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't know, and I'll burst the bubble. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.
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#88. They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
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#89. I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.
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#90. 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.
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#91. Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.
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#92. A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.
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#93. 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.
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#94. In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.
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#95. The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.
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#96. 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.
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#97. My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.
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#98. Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.
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#99. 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.
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