Clint Eastwood

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I…

— Clint Eastwood

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students…

— Clint Eastwood

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too…

— Clint Eastwood

I think attorneys are so busy...you know they're always taught to argue everything, and always weight everything, weigh both sides. They are…

— Clint Eastwood

In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for…

— Clint Eastwood

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the…

— Clint Eastwood

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more…

— Clint Eastwood

When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at…

— Clint Eastwood

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…

— Clint Eastwood

I don't have any great pickup lines. I was never an extrovert, so I always had to have someone meet me halfway.…

— 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,…

— Clint Eastwood

There's a saying that we use in golf: "I'd rather be lucky than good." Of course, to be lucky and good is…

— Clint Eastwood

After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds…

— Clint Eastwood

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

I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for…

— Clint Eastwood

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

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting…

— Clint Eastwood

You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing…

— Clint Eastwood

A lot of people when they retire, they just expire. It happens to men more than women. Women usually have great interest…

— Clint Eastwood

The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of…

— Clint Eastwood

Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you…

— Clint Eastwood

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

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People…

— Clint Eastwood

[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like…

— Clint Eastwood

I was forty the first time I directed. I formed a company in 1967, looking to the future. My dad taught me…

— Clint Eastwood

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

Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything…

— Clint Eastwood

I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet…

— Clint Eastwood

I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted…

— Clint Eastwood

I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or…

— Clint Eastwood

You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours…And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them…

— Clint Eastwood

Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

— Clint Eastwood

The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it…

— Clint Eastwood

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to…

— Clint Eastwood

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were…

— Clint Eastwood

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your…

— Clint Eastwood

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor…

— Clint Eastwood

I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what …" And I'd say, "I know. I read…

— Clint Eastwood

You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.

— Clint Eastwood

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair…

— Clint Eastwood