"When I used to be a contract..." - Quote by Clint Eastwood
When I used to be a contract player in 1954 at Universal, I wasn't getting good roles. I was getting one-liners, and then I'd be gone. But I'd hang around; I'd watch guys. And when I had days off, which was most days, I'd go down and watch other sets while they were shooting. Watch Joan Crawford or whomever. Just watch how they worked and how the director handled them. I didn't know anything about making movies, and there's a lot to learn.
More by Clint Eastwood
“The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.”
“They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.”
“First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you.”
More on Acting
“The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that.”
“As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.”
“I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2".”