When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
CLINT EASTWOODWhen you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
CLINT EASTWOODI’m trying to preach the idea that if we don’t pay attention to history we’re destined to repeat it.
CLINT EASTWOODIf you’re afraid to take risks in anything in life, it’s just boredom.
CLINT EASTWOODDirecting is more like you’re being a psychologist and you’re kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.
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 EASTWOODPeople 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 EASTWOODKids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?
CLINT EASTWOODI’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.
CLINT EASTWOODThe most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don’t have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.
CLINT EASTWOODI’d say people get to work and start being more understanding of everybody – instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding. But get in there and get it done. Kick ass and take names. And this may be my dad talking, but don’t spend what you don’t have.
CLINT EASTWOODHillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I’m sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.
CLINT EASTWOODMy wife is my closest friend. Sure, I’m attracted to her in every way possible, but that’s not the answer. Because I’ve been attracted to other people, and I couldn’t stand ’em after a while.
CLINT EASTWOODThe interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They’re wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They’re imagining they’re out in the yard playing. They’re imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.
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 do believe in self-help.
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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