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Clint Eastwood (Actor)

I thought I might die. But then I thought, 'Other people have made it through these things before'. I kept my eyes on the lights on shore and kept swimming.

— Clint Eastwood people

Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.

— Clint Eastwood self

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

— Clint Eastwood marriage

I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.

— Clint Eastwood people

With that kind of money, I could have invaded some country.

— Clint Eastwood money

Everybody wonders why I continue working at this stage. I keep working because there's always new stories. ... And as long as people want me to tell them, I'll be there doing them.

— Clint Eastwood people

In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

— Clint Eastwood women

McGilligan, Patrick (1999). Clint: The Life and Legend. London: Harper Collins. .

— Clint Eastwood end

'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

— Clint Eastwood

I wanted to play it with an economy of words and create this whole feeling through attitude and movement. It was just the kind of character I had envisioned for a long time, keep to the mystery and allude to what happened in the past. It came about after the frustration of doing Rawhide for so long. I felt the less he said the stronger he became and the more he grew in the imagination of the audience.

— Clint Eastwood time

andplay losers very well. But my audience like to be in there vicariously with a winner. That isn't always popular with critics. My characters have sensitivity and vulnerabilities, but they're still winners. I don't pretend to understand losers. When I read a script about a loser I think of people in life who are losers and they seem to want it that way. It's a compulsive philosophy with them. Winners tell themselves, I'm as bright as the next person. I can do it. Nothing can stop me.

— Clint Eastwood life

Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like . It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet.

— Clint Eastwood time

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

— Clint Eastwood power

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

— Clint Eastwood marriage

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

— Clint Eastwood control

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

— Clint Eastwood soul

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

— Clint Eastwood time

I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

— Clint Eastwood crime

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.

— Clint Eastwood children

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

— Clint Eastwood people

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

— Clint Eastwood man

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

— Clint Eastwood military

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

— Clint Eastwood you

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

— Clint Eastwood life

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

— Clint Eastwood marriage

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

— Clint Eastwood wit

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.

— Clint Eastwood people

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

— Clint Eastwood joy

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

— Clint Eastwood people

You should never give up your inner self.

— Clint Eastwood self

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

— Clint Eastwood people

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

— Clint Eastwood age

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

— Clint Eastwood art

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

— Clint Eastwood success

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.

— Clint Eastwood thinking

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.

— Clint Eastwood world

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

— Clint Eastwood childhood

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, thats real power.

— Clint Eastwood power

I guess its like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all.... if we did pass it, all of a sudden, what do you have? You have the whole tax system run by a little old lady on a home computer, doing the work of all these thousands of bureaucrats and accountants. Passing that would be amazing, wouldnt it?

— Clint Eastwood work

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