Clint Eastwood Quotes

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

Being comfortable is over-rated.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

Opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.

What Trump is onto is, he's just saying what's on his mind. And sometimes it's not so good. And sometimes it's... I mean, I can understand where he's coming from, but I don't always agree with it.

That's one of the actor's secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself.

Every man has got to know his limitations.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

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

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.

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.

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

Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.

Tomorrow is promised to no one.

I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.

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.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

Do ya' feel lucky, punk?

Fate pulls you in different directions

I'm just a kid. I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.

Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.

You have to go with your instincts.

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.

I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, "I used to be in films years ago... ."

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.

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.