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Quotes by 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
I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
– Clint Eastwood
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
– Clint Eastwood
My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
– Clint Eastwood
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
– Clint Eastwood
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
– Clint Eastwood
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
– Clint Eastwood
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
– Clint Eastwood
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
– Clint Eastwood
We boil at different degrees.
– Clint Eastwood
You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
– Clint Eastwood
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.
– Clint Eastwood
Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
– Clint Eastwood
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
– Clint Eastwood
There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
– Clint Eastwood
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.
– Clint Eastwood
Society is at odds with itself.
– Clint Eastwood
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
– Clint Eastwood
People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
– Clint Eastwood
Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
– Clint Eastwood
Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
– Clint Eastwood
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.
– Clint Eastwood
Men must know their limitations.
– Clint Eastwood
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
– Clint Eastwood
If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
– Clint Eastwood
If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.
– Clint Eastwood
I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.
– Clint Eastwood
I was drafted during the Korean War.
– Clint Eastwood
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
– Clint Eastwood
I still work out on a daily basis.
– Clint Eastwood
I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.
– Clint Eastwood
I keep working because I learn something new all the time.
– Clint Eastwood
I just think it is important that you realize , that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
– Clint Eastwood
I haven't been very active in politics.
– Clint Eastwood
I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
– Clint Eastwood
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
– Clint Eastwood
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
– Clint Eastwood
And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.
– Clint Eastwood