Top 483 Quotes & Sayings by Clint Eastwood - Page 4

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

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

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

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

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

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

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

I'm a day-to-day-type person.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

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

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

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.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.'

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.

A good man always knows his limitations.

Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.

Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist.

Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.

Tomorrow is promised to no one.

Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.

These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. hey go on and on with all this bullshit about "sanctity"—don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.

I haven't killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.

You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Go ahead, make my day.

Opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.