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Character Quotes by Clint Eastwood

19 Character quotes by Clint Eastwood

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If you’ve ever wondered how a Hollywood legend thinks about personal integrity, this handful of Eastwood’s reflections offers a clear, unvarnished view. Each line cuts to the core of what it means to stand firm, making it a solid quick‑read for anyone weighing their own convictions.

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I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the…

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I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

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I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

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I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

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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…

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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…

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I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a…

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It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so…

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You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

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You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects.…

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I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find…

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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…

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The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you…

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I think the only way it has influenced me is to cause me to try to branch out and do other things.…

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Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true,…

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I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what…

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

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

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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…

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I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

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I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.

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There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by…

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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…

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The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn’t ordered to do.

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I love stories about women.

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My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records…

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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…

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President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

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

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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…

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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…

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My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby…

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I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

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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…

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