Clint Eastwood
What you put into life is what you get out of it.Collection: Life
I've had no problem harnessing anger.Collection: Anger
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.Collection: God
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.Collection: Marriage
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.Collection: Dating
I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.Collection: Money
My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.Collection: Dad
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.Collection: Power
My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.Collection: Dad
Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.Collection: Death
I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.Collection: Religion
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.Collection: Power
Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.Collection: Movies
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.Collection: Funny
Men must know their limitations.Collection: Men
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.Collection: Movies
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.Collection: Change
You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.Collection: Car
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?'Collection: War
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.Collection: Society
We boil at different degrees.Collection: Anger
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.Collection: Age
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.Collection: Funny
I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Alone
A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.Collection: War
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 keep working because I learn something new all the time.
You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.
A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.
As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.
Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.
I just don't like killing creatures.
I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.
'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.
I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.
In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.
Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.
When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.
In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.
Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'
The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.
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 would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
I haven't been very active in politics.
The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.