Clint Eastwood is an American actor, filmmaker, and politician who has made significant contributions to the entertainment industry. He has had a long and successful career, both as an actor and a director.
Eastwood gained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s with his roles in the “spaghetti western” films directed by Sergio Leone, such as “A Fistful of Dollars,” “For a Few Dollars More,” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” He later starred as the iconic “Dirty Harry” in the film series of the same name.
Clint Eastwood has become a cultural icon known for his distinctive acting style, rugged on-screen persona, and memorable characters. He is often associated with the archetype of the tough, no-nonsense “man with no name” from his early western films.
Clint Eastwood Quotes
1. “Man becomes his most creative during war.” -Clint Eastwood
2. “Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.” -Clint Eastwood
3. “There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.” -Clint Eastwood
4. “When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.” -Clint Eastwood
5. “I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.” -Clint Eastwood
6. “Fate pulls you in different directions.” -Clint Eastwood
7. “I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.” -Clint Eastwood
8. “What you put into life is what you get out of it.” -Clint Eastwood
9. “We boil at different degrees.” -Clint Eastwood
10. “I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.” -Clint Eastwood
11. “My mother always told me it wasn’t polite to ask what people make.” -Clint Eastwood
12. “There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.”-Clint Eastwood
13. “Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.” -Clint Eastwood
14. “Every story has its demands.”-Clint Eastwood
15. “Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.” -Clint Eastwood
16. “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” -Clint Eastwood
17. “They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.” -Clint Eastwood
18. “The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.” -Clint Eastwood
19. “I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”-Clint Eastwood
20. “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.” -Clint Eastwood
21. “If you think it’s going to rain, it will.” -Clint Eastwood
22. “I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.” -Clint Eastwood
23. “There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.”-Clint Eastwood
24. “President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” -Clint Eastwood
25. “God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.” -Clint Eastwood
26. “I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.” -Clint Eastwood
27. “The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.” -Clint Eastwood
28. “I keep working because I learn something new all the time.” -Clint Eastwood
29. “Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.” -Clint Eastwood
30. “I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.” -Clint Eastwood
31. “I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?”-Clint Eastwood
32. “You should never give up your inner self.” -Clint Eastwood
33. “Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.” -Clint Eastwood
34. “Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.” -Clint Eastwood
35. “I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.” -Clint Eastwood
36. “I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‘Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.’ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.” -Clint Eastwood
37. “Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‘Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.” -Clint Eastwood
38. “A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.” -Clint Eastwood
39. “I mean, I’ve always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair.” -Clint Eastwood
40. “When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.” -Clint Eastwood
41. “Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.”-Clint Eastwood
42. “Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.”-Clint Eastwood
43. “My whole life has been one big improvisation.”-Clint Eastwood
44. “My old drama coach used to say, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.”-Clint Eastwood
45. “My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn’t believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.” -Clint Eastwood
46. “I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.”-Clint Eastwood
47. “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 how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.”-Clint Eastwood
48. “This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.”-Clint Eastwood
49. “I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.”-Clint Eastwood
50. “There has to be something in every role that interests you.” -Clint Eastwood
51. “There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.” -Clint Eastwood
52. “Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.” -Clint Eastwood
53. “My mother always told me it wasn’t polite to ask what people make.”-Clint Eastwood
54. “Every story has its demands.” -Clint Eastwood
55. “I never sympathise with the accused unless there’s a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don’t ever sympathise with the criminal.” -Clint Eastwood
56.”If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.” -Clint Eastwood
57. “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 mayor.” -Clint Eastwood
58. “I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.” -Clint Eastwood
59. “It’s always fun to talk about jazz.” -Clint Eastwood
60. “I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.” -Clint Eastwood
