Clint Eastwood
I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.Collection: Philosophy
I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.Collection: Funny Inspirational
Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.Collection: Analyzing
The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, so don't let it concern you that much. An awful lot of good movies have done badly and an awful lot of bad movies have done very well. There are no real rhymes or reasons for it. Sometimes the stars don't always align right. But if you've done the best you can, you feel pretty good about it.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Ideas
Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.Collection: Heart
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
My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.Collection: People
I don't like showing the technique. I don't like people who say, "Here, I'm going to act, but first I have to bounce off this wall." If you have to bounce off the wall, do it by yourself. Don't feature the technique. My old drama coach used to say, "Don't just do something, stand there." Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.Collection: Wall
We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one hasCollection: Boxers
Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?Collection: Kids
The casting is the most important thing. If you cast a picture really well a lot of things take care of themselves. You get actors that like to give a lot to the role and who appreciate the role on the same level that you do. If you miscast it, you're working an uphill battle a little bit and maybe you can come out okay but you can't always come out great.Collection: Appreciate
Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level.Collection: Successful
When I was a kid, I remember the first Batman, the first Superman comic books when they came out, thinking how great that was and wouldn't it be great to see a movie like that. They did some cheap serials, but they're not the same as today. But I think younger audiences would like to see a real hero also.Collection: Real
I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]Collection: Growing Up
[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.Collection: Philosophy
The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.Collection: Horse
The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, "How many roles are there for someone my age?"Collection: Thinking
These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. hey go on and on with all this bullshit about "sanctity"—don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.Collection: Gay
I haven't killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.Collection: Way
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
I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.Collection: Ideas
Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.Collection: Thinking
To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.Collection: Friendly
You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.Collection: Way
If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.Collection: Inspirational
Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That's the secret to life, really: never stop learning. It's the secret to career. I'm still working because I learn something new all the time. It's the secret to relationships. Never think you've got it all.Collection: Children
I'm a great supporter of transcendental meditation. I've been using it for almost 40 years now - and I think it's a great tool for anyone to have, to be able to utilize as a tool for stress. Stress, of course, comes with almost every business. I think there are enough studies out there that show that TM is something that could benefit anybody. It's a great system to use. Otherwise, why would I've been doing it for all these years, for almost half of my life?Collection: Stress
If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.Collection: Cowboy
Fate pulls you in different directionsCollection: Fate
If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it.Collection: Attention
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
I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.Collection: Real
You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.Collection: Badass
Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.Collection: Believe
Self-respect leads to self-discipline.Collection: Respect
Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.Collection: Eye
The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.Collection: Thinking
Go ahead, make my day.Collection: Badass
Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.Collection: Names
Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.Collection: Responsibility
A good man always knows his limitations.Collection: Men
It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.Collection: People
Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.Collection: Thinking
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.Collection: Hate
Tomorrow is promised to no one.Collection: Tomorrow
I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?Collection: Movie
If you feel like you've got something to offer you should do it while the iron's hot.Collection: Iron
When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.Collection: Men