Clint Eastwood
I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.
I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.
I do believe in self-help.
I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
Man becomes his most creative during war.
Some people feel that the world owes them a living.
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
Fate pulls you in different directions.
We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.
Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.
You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.Collection: Country
Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.Collection: Kids
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.Collection: Art
One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.Collection: People
I am not a regret type person. I don't believe in regrets. Lots of things you would do differently if you'd do it again, but you don't do it again, so you don't think about it. But that goes for life in general. You're only dealing with the knowledge you have at that time.Collection: Regret
You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.Collection: Realistic
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the oldCollection: Respect
I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.Collection: Looking Forward
Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!Collection: Overcoming
You're as young as you feel. As young as you want to be. There's an old saying I heard from a friend of mine. People ask him, "Why do you look so good at your age?" He'll say, "Because I never let the old man in." And there's truth to that. It's in your mind, how far you let him come in.Collection: Men
Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.Collection: Long
Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.Collection: Idiot
If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.Collection: Boredom
Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist.Collection: Tired
Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.Collection: People
Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriouslyCollection: Pompous
Opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.Collection: Hate
Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.Collection: Western Movie
You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.Collection: Actors
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.Collection: Vegetables
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.Collection: Couple
I'd say people get to work and start being more understanding of everybody - instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding. But get in there and get it done. Kick ass and take names. And this may be my dad talking, but don't spend what you don't have.Collection: Dad
I never look back and think too much about my films. I've done some work I've been proud of over the years but which of them is my favourite I really don't know. I could say the last one. I've had little jumps in my career like Unforgiven possibly.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Way
At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that?Collection: Children
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.Collection: Character
Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.Collection: Writing
Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.Collection: Jobs
I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.Collection: Would Be
I'm in the saddle every day playing a screwball. And then somebody comes along and says, "How would you like to go to Italy and Spain and do an Italian/Spanish/German co-production with an Italian director who's only directed one movie?" It wasn't like I was going there to be with Federico Fellini. But something was there, and I thought, Well, I loved this story when it was told by Akira Kurosawa; maybe this is a good idea. That's an instinctive moment. A Fistful of Dollars was made.Collection: Italian
Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do.Collection: Art
Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and I make the films I believe in. If the public follows me, that's wonderful. If it doesn't follow, "c'est la vie.Collection: Believe
That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.Collection: Careers
Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would all agree that it's all based upon material and the material has got to spark with you. It may be great material but you think it's great material for somebody else. Or it's great material and I'm perfect for it. So, you just have to make that judgment and if you feel in the mood to do it.Collection: Writing