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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Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

Clint Eastwood

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

Clint Eastwood

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Clint Eastwood

I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.

Clint Eastwood

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

Clint Eastwood

On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.

Clint Eastwood

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

Clint Eastwood

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

Clint Eastwood

I just don't like killing creatures.

Clint Eastwood

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

Clint Eastwood

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.

Clint Eastwood

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

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

Clint Eastwood

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

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

Clint Eastwood

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises h...

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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! Th...

Clint Eastwood

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Clint Eastwood

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.

Clint Eastwood

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

Clint Eastwood

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.

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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