Being comfortable is over-rated.
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.
More Clint Eastwood Quotes
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I was always annoyed by too much explaining.
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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 spend your life training to be an actor, observing people’s characteristics so that you can design characters around what you’ve seen.
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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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Nothing wrong with shooting, as long as the right people get shot.
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You, me, we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours, And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
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Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.
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I’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.
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If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
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There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.
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Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
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Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.
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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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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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I’m more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.
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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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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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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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The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
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If you’re afraid to take risks in anything in life, it’s just boredom.
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