Latest Clint Eastwood Quotes from Interviews

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• I think as you get older, you find you can play more things because you're moving to a different category. You play a certain thing as a younger man, playing action roles like I did. Then I moved out, and I kept trying to do different things all the time.

  Clint Eastwood

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.today.com

• 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.

  Clint Eastwood

  Italian, Remember, Film

  Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. November 6, 2011.

• It's hard to tell what will stimulate curiosity nowadays because looking at some of the things that do excite people, you kind of go, "Ohh, OK. So this hasn't a chance." But we made it anyway. I think if people see the picture, they'll find a lot of parallels to today, ever since 9/11 and everything, that kind of fear that's going on in disturbance of the country.

  Clint Eastwood

  Country, Thinking, People

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

  Clint Eastwood

  Responsibility, Action, Reason

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• If a person is constantly evolving, constantly reading new material and being exposed to new material and growing in life, then you're becoming, hopefully, a more intelligent and well-rounded individual. If you're not then something's wrong and you're sliding back in the other direction.

  Clint Eastwood

  Reading, Intelligent, Individual

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• 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. There are many things you can go back and have regrets about. I don't like doing that. But by the same token I do agree that when you get to a certain stage in life, you change. And you should change.

  Clint Eastwood

  Dog, Regret, Wish

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• I think the only way it has influenced me is to cause me to try to branch out and do other things. So that people will know that I am reaching out and trying to be a little more versatile. So they realize he is not a "Dirty Harry." He doesn't advocate martial law or mayhem -it's a character.

  Clint Eastwood

  Dirty, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• 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. And I think we're at a point now where a lot of older women take better care of themselves, compared to the 1940s and '50s when women were programmed to figure it's all over after 30.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Tolerance, Care

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• We were dealing with films that had very prominent roles for women and I felt I was actually contributing something. Many people had wondered why I would want to do a film where the best part was a woman's part. But I wasn't afraid to be the lesser intelligence in a film.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, Film

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.

  Clint Eastwood

  Selfish, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is concerned, dating back to the Greek tragedies or the Old Testament. And violence is a form of conflict, so whether that's catharsis or whether that has some socially damaging effect on audiences - I suppose that would just depend.

  Clint Eastwood

  Drama, Dating, Long

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• You're as young as you feel. As young as you want to be. There's an old saying I heard from a friend of mine. People ask him, "Why do you look so good at your age?" He'll say, "Because I never let the old man in." And there's truth to that. It's in your mind, how far you let him come in.

  Clint Eastwood

  Men, People, Mind

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I don't have any great pickup lines. I was never an extrovert, so I always had to have someone meet me halfway. If she was interested, we'd come together, and if not ... When I became a movie actor and became well-known, it took care of itself. Maybe that's why I became an actor.

  Clint Eastwood

  Together, Care, Halfway

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level.

  Clint Eastwood

  Successful, Work Out, Ego

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I've always told my son Scott the same thing: Don't rush into anything, because there's gonna be a lot of fish in the sea. You can be one of the people that's lucky enough not to become a loser two and three and four times over like people do, just by being a little more patient.

  Clint Eastwood

  Son, People, Lucky

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I'd have to go for Donald Trump ... you know, 'cause Hillary Clinton is declared that she's gonna follow in Barack Obama's footsteps. There's been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle. She's made a lot of dough out of being a politician.

  Clint Eastwood

  Politician, Clinton, Barack

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I'm anti - the pussy generation. Not to be confused with pussy.

  Clint Eastwood

  Confused

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I'd say people get to work and start being more understanding of everybody - instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding. But get in there and get it done. Kick ass and take names. And this may be my dad talking, but don't spend what you don't have.

  Clint Eastwood

  Dad, People, Understanding

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I'm thinking, That's Barack Obama. He doesn't go to work. He doesn't go down to Congress and make a deal. What the hell's he doing sitting in the White House? If I were in that job, I'd get down there and make a deal. Sure, Congress are lazy bastards, but so what? You're the top guy. You're the president of the company. It's your responsibility to make sure everybody does well. It's the same with every company in this country, whether it's a two-man company or a two-hundred-man company... . And that's the pussy generation - nobody wants to work.

  Clint Eastwood

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, People, Nobody Knows

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I'm in the saddle every day playing a screwball. And then somebody comes along and says, "How would you like to go to Italy and Spain and do an Italian/Spanish/German co-production with an Italian director who's only directed one movie?" It wasn't like I was going there to be with Federico Fellini. But something was there, and I thought, Well, I loved this story when it was told by Akira Kurosawa; maybe this is a good idea. That's an instinctive moment. A Fistful of Dollars was made.

  Clint Eastwood

  Italian, Moments

  Source: www.esquire.com

• For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.

  Clint Eastwood

  Men, Done

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who's doing Rawhide.

  Clint Eastwood

  Believe, People, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

• A lot of people when they retire, they just expire. It happens to men more than women. Women usually have great interest in the family, because the family's always growing and they're always coming to the rescue.

  Clint Eastwood

  Men, People, Interest

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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.

  Clint Eastwood

  Player, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com