Clint Eastwood Quotes And Sayings

I Tried Being Reasonable, I Didn't Like It.

Let's Put It This Way: There Wouldn't Be Much Point In Me Attending A High-school Reunion Now Because There Wouldn't Be Anybody There. We'd Struggle To Raise A Quorum.

I Never Sympathise With The Accused Unless There's A Chance The Accused Is Not Guilty, But I Certainly Don't Ever Sympathise With The Criminal.

Fate Pulls You In Different Directions.

I Don't Think I've Met Anyone With A Stronger Work Ethic Than Ray Charles.

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.

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.

Just Try Not To Ingest A Lot Of Fats, And Just Try To Eat Carefully.

When You're Young, You're Very Reckless. Then You Get Conservative. Then You Get Reckless Again.

God Gave You A Brain. Do The Best You Can With It. And You Don't Have To Be Einstein, But Einstein Was Mentally Tough. He Believed What He Believed. And He Worked Out Things. And He Argued With People Who Disagreed With Him. But I'm Sure He Didn't Call Everybody Jerks.

Comedy Isn't Necessarily All Dialogue. Think Of Buster Keaton: The Poker Face And All This Chaos Going On All Around Him. Sometimes It's A Question Of Timing, Of The Proper Rhythm.

If You Ever Go To A Music Session, You'll Notice That The Musicians Can Sit Down And Start Playing Right Away, And Everyone Knows What To Do. Of Course They're Reading It, But The Conductor Can Tweak Little Things, And You Can Take That Back To Directing Motion Pictures.

Sometimes If You Want To See A Change For The Better, You Have To Take Things Into Your Own Hands.

I Don't Believe In Pessimism. If Something Doesn't Come Up The Way You Want, Forge Ahead. If You Think It's Going To Rain, It Will.

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.

Everybody Accuses Me Of Moving Fast When I Direct A Picture. I Don't Move Fast, But I Just Keep Moving.

Actors Know, With Me They Aren't Going To Be Allowed To Rehearse A Scene For A Couple Of Hours And Then Get Away With Doing 25 Takes Before We Get It Right. So They Come With Their Full Bag Of Tricks.

My Grandfather Lived To Be Late 90s On One Side And On The Other Side, 70s Or Something. And My Father Died Young, At 63. But He Didn't Take Very Good Care Of Himself.

In School, I Could Hear The Leaves Rustle And Go On A Journey.

Drama Usually Has Some Sort Of Intense Conflict.

It's Much More Fun To Play Something You're Nothing Like Than What You Are... It's Much Easier To Hide Yourself In A Character.

I Was Drafted During The Korean War.

The Guys Who Won World War Ii And That Whole Generation Have Disappeared, And Now We Have A Bunch Of Teenage Twits.

I Just Make The Pictures And Where They Fall Is Where They Fall. If Somebody Likes Them, That's Always Nice. And If They Don't Like Them, Then Too Bad.

If I'd Had Good Discipline, I Might Have Gone Into Music.

I Have Worked Ever Since I Was 13.

President Obama Is The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated On The American People.

When I Was Born, The Economy Wasn't In A Great State; It Was The Depression, And My Father Had To Be Quick To Try And Find Work.

My Mother Always Told Me It Wasn't Polite To Ask What People Make.

I've Always Been Very Liberal When It Comes To People Thinking For Themselves.

I Think Pebble Beach Is Kind Of A Unique Place On The Planet.

I Hate To See Anybody Sink. I Hate To See Anybody Lose Their Dream, Lose Their Home, Something Like That.

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.

If You Want A Guarantee, Buy A Toaster.

Everybody Thinks Making Films Back To Back Is A Big Deal But They Did It All The Time In The Old Days.

Men Must Know Their Limitations.

If A Person Doesn't Change, There's Something Really Wrong With Him.

If You're Doing A Biography, You Try To Stay As Accurate As Possible To Reality. But You Really Don't Know What Was Going On In The Person's Mind. You Just Know What Was Going On In The Minds Of People Around Him.

You Know When You're Young And You See A Play In High School, And The Guys All Have Gray In Their Hair And They're Trying To Be Old Men And They Have No Idea What That's Like? It's Just That Stupid The Other Way Around.

People Love Westerns Worldwide. There's Something Fantasy-like About An Individual Fighting The Elements. Or Even Bad Guys And The Elements. It's A Simpler Time. There's No Organized Laws And Stuff.

I'm A Movie Maker, But I Have The Same Feelings As The Average Guy Out There.

My Whole Life Has Been One Big Improvisation.

We Boil At Different Degrees.

I'm Not One Of These Guys Who Sits Around Saying, 'Gee, I Mean, The Person Had A Strange Childhood And That's Why He's Doing This Horrible Thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's Just Had A Bad Childhood And That's Why He's Eating People.' Wait A Second! This Person Should Be Removed From The Planet.

Politicians Love Regulating. That's Part Of The Whole Power Structure.

Some People Feel That The World Owes Them A Living.

I'm Not A New Age Person, But I Do Believe In Meditation, And For That Reason I've Always Liked The Buddhist Religion. When I've Been To Japan, I've Been To Buddhist Temples And Meditated, And I Found That Rewarding.

I Was An Eisenhower Republican When I Started Out At 21 Because He Promised To Get Us Out Of The Korean War.

The U.s. Military Was Segregated 'Til The Korean War, And The Blacks In World War Two Were Totally Segregated.

I'm A Mentor To Anybody Who's Interested.