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That’s the secret to a movie career – just keeping an open mind.

Clint Eastwood

Hollywood 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.
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Action Couple Forget Myself Violence
That’s one of the actor’s secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself.
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Learning Secret Yourself
Self-respect leads to self-discipline.
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Discipline One Liner Respect
You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools – and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are extremely valuable They work like a charm. I’ve used them all along and still do.
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Along Necessary Teaching Tools Value Yourself
When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
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Young Yourself
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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Hell Himself Kill Men
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.
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Believe Death Fear Force Hands Time Yourself
We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
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Oneself Time
Directing is more like you’re being a psychologist and you’re kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.
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Direction Kind Person Yourself
It’s what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.
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Afraid Deep People Philosophy
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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Artist Myself Pay Writing Zero
When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.
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Chase Knives Men Naked Woman
Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously
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Job Serious Yourself
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
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Change Hands Reality
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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Believe Courage Myself Opportunity People
Go ahead, make my day.
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Myself One Liner

That’s the secret to a movie career – just keeping an open mind.

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