Clint Eastwood
I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.Collection: Way
Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree.Collection: Fun
I don't believe in pessimism.Collection: Positive
I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.Collection: Thinking
At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.Collection: Causes
Things always look different from higher up.Collection: Different
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.Collection: Political
I found out that a lot of my liberal friends weren't liberal because they weren't liberal about approaching anybody else's ideas, or at least standing for it. They started getting really animalistic about, "I can't even associate with this guy. He's stupid. He's an idiot."Collection: Stupid
I had three points I wanted to make. That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of 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.Collection: Jobs
The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Retirement
Every man has got to know his limitations.Collection: Military
When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.Collection: Thinking
There's really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself to act. That's kind of what it is; once you learn the little tricks that work for you, pretty soon you find yourself doing that.Collection: Finding Yourself
I'm anti - the pussy generation. Not to be confused with pussy.Collection: Confused
It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.Collection: Men
Abuse of power isn't limited to 'bad guys' in other nations. It happens in our own country. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself. I have a reverence for individuality. I've always considered myself too individualistic to be either right-wing or left-wing. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. People should be able to be what they want to be and do what they want - as long as they're not harming other people. I am a libertarian.Collection: Country
I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since the day I called my father and told him I was going to study acting and maybe try to see if I could do well with that, and he told me: "Don't do that. You don't want to do that, that's just dream stuff. Get a legitimate job and move forward."Collection: Dream
Do ya' feel lucky, punk?Collection: Good Luck
You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Soul
Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.Collection: Politician
Scott's Eastwood movie Snowden sounds fascinating. I want to see it because it's about deserting your country ... for whatever reasons you have. Edward Snowden became famous for the wrong reasons, as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger became famous for doing something spectacular.Collection: Country
Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.Collection: Country
What happened is I was going to college in 1950. L. A. City College. A guy I knew was going to an acting class on Thursday nights. He started telling me about all the good-lookin' chicks and said, "Why don't you go with me?" So I probably had some motivation beyond thoughts of being an actor. And sure enough, he was right. There were a lot of girls and not many guys. I said, "Yeah, they need me here." I wound up at Universal as a contract player.Collection: Girl
An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.Collection: Long
There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Reading
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.Collection: Respect
They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.Collection: Marriage
It’s always fun to talk about jazz.Collection: Fun
I am sort of anti-hunting. I don’t put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.Collection: Fun
The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don’t have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.Collection: Fun
Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Country
As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.Collection: Romance
You get to a certain age and you’re just glad to be there. I don’t know what to add to that. It’s fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.Collection: Fun
Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there’s free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I’ll kill you. I mean it.Collection: Country
When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?Collection: Stories
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.Collection: Stories
Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It’s fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.Collection: Fun
I’m more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Real
Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.Collection: Country