Clint Eastwood Movie Quotes

#1. You see a Clint Eastwood movie, and you might not know if it's from Universal or Warner Bros. or another studio. He has affiliations with so many studios now, but there was a time when you'd just look at a movie and think, 'Oh, that's a Warner Bros. film.'

Robert Osborne

#2. 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.

Clint Eastwood

#3. Genetic testing in the future is going to be seen as critical as testing your cholesterol.

Anne Wojcicki

#4. I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.

Pierce Brosnan

#5. You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

Clint Eastwood

#6. That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.

Clint Eastwood

#7. God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

J.I. Packer

#8. The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing ... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#9. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'

Clint Eastwood

#10. You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Clint Eastwood

#11. I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

Clint Eastwood

#12. When you are desperately grabbing at straws all you get is a handful of weeds.

Stephen Richards

#13. Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

Ethan Hawke

#14. My favorite movie is 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' with Clint Eastwood, a guy who gets his family killed by the bad guys then goes on a journey of revenge, eventually discovering himself - very existential.

Frank Grillo

#15. I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Clint Eastwood

#16. I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.

Clint Eastwood

#17. When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.

Clint Eastwood

#18. The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

Clint Eastwood

#19. The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#20. My dad traveled a lot, so I only usually saw him on weekends, growing up. His favorite actors in the world were Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. If Clint or Burt had a movie out, we would go to the movies. He didn't like movies, generally, unless Clint or Burt were in them.

William Earl Brown

#21. 124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom

Toni Morrison

#22. I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Clint Eastwood

#23. I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.

Dylan McDermott

#24. The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

Ellen Hopkins

#25. I had Ice Cube on my first album, "Bunker," and then I did a remix for Snoop Dogg. I've worked with Grandmaster Flash and Pharrell. It's a different work process and there's a different take with how you produce [hip-hop].

Paul Oakenfold

#26. I'd really like to do a movie again with Tim Robbins and Clint Eastwood. They were really good guys.

Cayden Boyd

#27. After another long silence, bit by bit, realisation dawned upon Edmund and he became even paler than Hecate herself which was, in itself, a fantastic achievement. Adele Rose, Awakening.

Adele Rose

#28. I don't think I could do what Woody Allen or Clint Eastwood or Ben Stiller do, where they direct a movie and they star in it. I would just be like, 'Oh, I don't even want to look at my face.'

Bill Hader

#29. As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.

Clint Eastwood

#30. I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

Casper Van Dien

#31. I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

Thom Yorke

#32. Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Clint Eastwood

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

Clint Eastwood

#36. Dying ain't much of a living, boy

Clint Eastwood

#37. I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely wrote a letter to Clint Eastwood saying, "Hey man, I'm a fan and I would be an extra in your movie."

Josh Lucas

#38. The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.

Sean Penn

#39. He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.

Mira Grant