Clint Eastwood Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, Reality, Grounded

  "Clint Eastwood as Superman or James Bond? ‘It could have happened,’ he says" by Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. September 7, 2010.

• Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot.

  Clint Eastwood

  Badass, Character, Thinking

  "'American Sniper' director Clint Eastwood says the movie is anti-war". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.businessinsider.com. Interview with Stephen Galloway.

• 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.

  Clint Eastwood

  Fun, Character, Play

• I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, Challenges, Trying

  "Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the character.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, Different, Angle

  "Eastwood and Hanks talk 'Sully,' their film about the ‘humble, smiling hero’ who landed on the Hudson River". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. September 1, 2016.

• 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

• [ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, J Edgar Hoover, Hoover

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J. Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, Careers, Actors

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". www.moviesonline.ca.

• No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, Thinking, Practice

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

• 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

  Movie, Character, Special

• That's why I don't rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I'd like to take the character, but we both end up going together.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, Ideas, Together

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

• I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to people for the rest of their lives, and how it affects not only that particular character but other characters around him as well.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, Ideas, People

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, People, Design

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

• The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Horse, Drama, Book

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. Ocober 6, 2003.

• 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.

  Clint Eastwood

  Real, Character, Creating

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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