Quotes By Clint Eastwood

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

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.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

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.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

I 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.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

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.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

I do believe in self-help.

I just think it is important that you realize , that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

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.