I like working. That's when I'm feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Most people are afraid of change. But if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I had three points I wanted to make. That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm getting to the age when I'm starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I'd say people get to work and start being more understanding of everybody - instead of calling everybody names, start being more… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
A talented executive would be somebody who knows how to surround themselves with a lot of people that will make him look… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You're as young as you feel. As young as you want to be. There's an old saying I heard from a friend… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
A lot of times people get to a certain age and they quit. I always felt sorry for the Frank Capras, the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
A lot of people when they retire, they just expire. It happens to men more than women. Women usually have great interest… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I've always told my son Scott the same thing: Don't rush into anything, because there's gonna be a lot of fish in… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I always felt blessed that I was able to make a living in a profession [acting] that not a lot of people… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a f*** about who wants to get… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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,… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true,… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When you're an actor, you're so busy: people are always coming up to you and pulling your collar, making sure that things… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
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… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
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… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
You thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean, you thought that was something worth doing. We didn't check with the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share