Clint Eastwood Quotes:- Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and politician. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.
Inspirational Clint Eastwood Quotes
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”-Clint Eastwood
“My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play at the same level.”-Clint Eastwood
“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.”-Clint Eastwood
“If you think it’s going to rain, it will.”-Clint Eastwood
“Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of adult society.”-Clint Eastwood
“I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.”-Clint Eastwood
“I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.”-Clint Eastwood
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“Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.”-Clint Eastwood
“You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.”-Clint Eastwood
“I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.”-Clint Eastwood
“I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.”-Clint Eastwood
“In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the ’40s – there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.”-Clint Eastwood
“I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?”-Clint Eastwood
“Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.”-Clint Eastwood
“As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.”-Clint Eastwood
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“There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.”-Clint Eastwood
“God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.”-Clint Eastwood
“I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.”-Clint Eastwood
“My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn’t believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.”-Clint Eastwood
“The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.”-Clint Eastwood
“My whole life has been one big improvisation.”-Clint Eastwood
“In ‘Gran Torino,’ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.”-Clint Eastwood
Famous Clint Eastwood Quotes about Film
“The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”-Clint Eastwood
“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 airbags in it, then it’s no good.”-Clint Eastwood
“When I did ‘Bird,’ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.”-Clint Eastwood
“And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.”-Clint Eastwood
“You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.”-Clint Eastwood
“The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.”-Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood Movie Quotes Politics
“I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.”-Clint Eastwood
“The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.”-Clint Eastwood
“There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.”-Clint Eastwood
“The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days when women stars were equally as important as men.”-Clint Eastwood
“I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.”-Clint Eastwood
“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”-Clint Eastwood
“The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.”-Clint Eastwood
“When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.”-Clint Eastwood