My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools - and for me, Psychological Gesture… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many… — 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
You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters and stuff. I've done it once or twice for law enforcement officials, but when people do that -- and there have been quite a few of them lately -- I always tell them no. I don't want to… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
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 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 play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret… — 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 Image