Clint Eastwood
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.
If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.
I still work out on a daily basis.
You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.
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.
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.
I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.
You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
I was drafted during the Korean War.
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.
Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.
I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.
I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
You should never give up your inner self.
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.
Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.
Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.
When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.
If you think it's going to rain, it will.
When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.
Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.
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.
And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.
My whole life has been one big improvisation.
I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.
The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
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.
At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.
In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.