Clint Eastwood Quotes

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.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?’

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

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

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

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.’

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn’t believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

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.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

I love big business!