If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the… — 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
Historically, actors have been made very famous for roles that were something that was far - - Richard Widmark comes to mind… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
What happened is I was going to college in 1950. L. A. City College. A guy I knew was going to an… — 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
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the… — 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
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
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
That's one of the actor's secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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