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.
CLINT EASTWOODAs 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.
CLINT EASTWOODRespect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
CLINT EASTWOODInstead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.
CLINT EASTWOODThere are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.
CLINT EASTWOODI’m a firm believer in research, but I’m also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.
CLINT EASTWOODI keep working because I learn something new all the time.
CLINT EASTWOODNobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.
CLINT EASTWOODSometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
CLINT EASTWOODI 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.
CLINT EASTWOODI am sort of anti-hunting. I don’t put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.
CLINT EASTWOODThere was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
CLINT EASTWOODFate pulls you in different directions
CLINT EASTWOODI 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.
CLINT EASTWOODI’m more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.
CLINT EASTWOODJust trust your instincts. There’s an old saying in golf, you’ve studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don’t trust it, you’ll ruin it; your brain will take over.
CLINT EASTWOODDon 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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