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.
CLINT EASTWOODBeing comfortable is over-rated.
More Clint Eastwood Quotes
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I do believe in self-help.
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If you’re afraid to take risks in anything in life, it’s just boredom.
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If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
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There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.
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I’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.
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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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I keep working because I learn something new all the time.
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Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?
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I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
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Just 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.
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Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.
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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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You see, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend – those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
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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’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.
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