Quotes by Clint Eastwood

About Clint Eastwood:

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, producer, musician, and politician. He rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.
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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

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Clint Eastwood

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

Clint Eastwood

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

Clint Eastwood

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

Clint Eastwood

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

Every story has its demands.

Clint Eastwood

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

Clint Eastwood

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Clint Eastwood

You should never give up your inner self.

Clint Eastwood

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

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Clint Eastwood

Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum.

Clint Eastwood

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

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Clint Eastwood

I have worked ever since I was 13.

Clint Eastwood

I'm not a regrets-type person.

Clint Eastwood

Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully.

Clint Eastwood

If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.

Clint Eastwood

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

Clint Eastwood

In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.

Clint Eastwood

Author Bio

  • NameClint Eastwood
  • Descriptionactor and director from the United States
  • AliasesClinton Eastwood, Jr.
  • BornMay 31, 1930
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Producer; Film Actor; Film Director; Restaurateur; Composer; Aviator; Helicopter Pilot; Jazz Musician
  • AwardsCommander Of The Legion Of Honour; Commandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; Academy Award For Best Director; National Medal Of Arts; Directors Guild Of America Award