Quotes By Clint Eastwood

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

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.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

I haven't been very active in politics.

Every story has its demands.

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.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

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.

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.

Society is at odds with itself.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

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.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.