Clint Eastwood Quotes

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 says, it’s a pat on the back, so great you’ll take it and then move on.

I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.

I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.

I haven't killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.

I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn`t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.

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".

Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

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

Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!

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

After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, "Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I ever see in it in the first place?" You have to shut off your brain and forge ahead, because by that time you're getting so brainwashed. Once I commit myself to a film I commit myself to that ending, whatever the motivations and conclusions are.

You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

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.

There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

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

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old

Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so.

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

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.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

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.

I don't like showing the technique. I don't like people who say, "Here, I'm going to act, but first I have to bounce off this wall." If you have to bounce off the wall, do it by yourself. Don't feature the technique. My old drama coach used to say, "Don't just do something, stand there." Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

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

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

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.

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

Every man has got to know his limitations.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

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

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.

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

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

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.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way around: Work out hard when you're a kid you should be able to coast when you get older. But unfortunately you have to do more to stay in the same position.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

You have to go with your instincts. I remember when I was about to make "Fistful of Dollars" a big article came out that said, "Italian Westerns are finished." I said, "Swell." Then, of course, the film came out, and it did something. I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.

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

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.

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

I was forty the first time I directed. I formed a company in 1967, looking to the future. My dad taught me that whatever you do, do it well. Be the best at what you can do for that particular job in life. That always resonated with me.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

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

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

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

Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.

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

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.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.