There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.
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 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 EASTWOODI mean, I’ve always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair.
CLINT EASTWOODI always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
CLINT EASTWOODYou 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.
CLINT EASTWOODMy old drama coach used to say, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.
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 EASTWOODThere’s nothing like a nice piece of hickory.
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 EASTWOODInstead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.
CLINT EASTWOODThere’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.
CLINT EASTWOODThat’s the secret to a movie career – just keeping an open mind.
CLINT EASTWOODYou spend your life training to be an actor, observing people’s characteristics so that you can design characters around what you’ve seen.
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 know what you’re thinking ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?
CLINT EASTWOODI’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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