I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
[ 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 Copy Share Image
You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
That's why I don't rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I'd like to… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects.… — 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
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
I think the only way it has influenced me is to cause me to try to branch out and do other things.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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… — 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 Image
I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things. — 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 people by… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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 Image
The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn’t ordered to do. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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