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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I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested.

Clint Eastwood

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

Clint Eastwood

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

Clint Eastwood

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

Clint Eastwood

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Clint Eastwood

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

Clint Eastwood

I think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime.

Clint Eastwood

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?

Clint Eastwood

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.

Clint Eastwood

Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.

Clint Eastwood

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.

Clint Eastwood

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.'

Clint Eastwood

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Clint Eastwood

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Clint Eastwood

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

Clint Eastwood

My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.

Clint Eastwood

I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.

Clint Eastwood

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

Clint Eastwood

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

Clint Eastwood

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

Clint Eastwood

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

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