You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.
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More Clint Eastwood Quotes
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There’s nothing like a nice piece of hickory.
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Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.
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Don Siegel last advice to me was ‘Don’t short yourself.’ He said the tendency is when an actor’s directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you’re going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you’re satisfied with it.
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That’s the secret to a movie career – just keeping an open mind.
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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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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 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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I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.
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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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I haven’t killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.
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I’m trying to preach the idea that if we don’t pay attention to history we’re destined to repeat it.
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Fate pulls you in different directions
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The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.
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Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
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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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There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.
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That’s one of the actor’s secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself.
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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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When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
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I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
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I’m more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.
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Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
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I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
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You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.
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Self-respect leads to self-discipline.
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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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