My old drama coach used to say, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.
CLINT EASTWOODAlways keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.
More Clint Eastwood Quotes
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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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Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there’s free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I’ll kill you. I mean it.
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When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
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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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I was always annoyed by too much explaining.
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Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.
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President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
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A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
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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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