When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
CLINT EASTWOODHollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there’s a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They’re forgetting the fact that there’s a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.
More Clint Eastwood Quotes
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It’s what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.
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I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that’s always amazing to me.
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You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.
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It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.
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What Trump is onto is, he’s just saying what’s on his mind. And sometimes it’s not so good. And sometimes it’s. I mean, I can understand where he’s coming from, but I don’t always agree with it.
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Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.
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Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have messed with? That’s me.
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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.
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People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.
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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.
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My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.
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Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
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I was always annoyed by too much explaining.
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Being comfortable is over-rated.
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Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there’s free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I’ll kill you. I mean it.
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I’d like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.
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A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
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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.
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Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.
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Go ahead, make my day.
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I’m more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.
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The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
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Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.
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As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.
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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.
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I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who’s doing Rawhide.
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