Quotes from Clint Eastwood


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The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.


Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.


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.


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.'


When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.


Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.


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.


I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I'd like to see somebody who's going in the office. In fact, I'd like to not see them because that way you'd be sure that they'd be working.


I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.


You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.


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.


Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.


I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.


There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.


And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.


You should never give up your inner self.


If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.


We boil at different degrees.


If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.


The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.