
Clint Eastwood Quotes Compilation
Clint Eastwood is a well-renowned American actor, movie director, producer, musician, and politician who’ve established himself as one of the most distinguished figures in the film industry. He achieved great success juggling between acting and directing films, demonstrating his versatility in his chosen fields. Clint Eastwood’s life serves as proof that with perseverance and determination, anyone can achieve whatever they desire. Hence, the words, quotes and movie lines of Clint Eastwood continue to inspire a lot today.
American motion-picture actor Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco, California, on May 31, 1930. From a low-level actor, Eastwood became a sought-after months after the success of Sergio Leone’s trilogy of Italian westerns, where he played as The Man with No Name. His striking good looks complemented his stoic demeanor, which fitted most of his roles in many western and crime shows. He received two Oscar nominations for his acting in “Unforgiven” and “Million Dollar Baby,” winning Best Director and Producer for each film. In total, Eastwood received 11 Oscar nominations and several other awards. He undeniably became one of the most respected Hollywood stars and director-producer even of today’s time.
Here is a compilation of quotes from Clint Eastwood, distributed into various categories.
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Clint Eastwood Movie Quotes
American motion-picture actor Clint Eastwood earned national and global stardom for his excellence in acting and directing/producing films. He appeared and directed many famous Western and action movies such as “Unforgiven,” “Million Dollar Baby,” and “Mystic River.” A legendary actor-director, he had numerous iconic and thought-provoking lines on and off the screen.
Here are some of the movie lines of American actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood:
Because I knew someone like you once and there was no one there to help. Now, get moving.
– Clint Eastwood as Joe
The heart, Ramon. Don’t forget the heart. Aim for the heart, or you’ll never stop me.
– Clint Eastwood as Joe
Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you’re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. ‘Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That’s just the way it is.
– Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales
That was no miracle, just an accident and life is full of ’em.
– Clint Eastwood as Hogan
You got your whole life ahead of you, but for me, I finish things.
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalski
Girlie, tough ain’t enough.
– Clint Eastwood as Frankie Dunn
Clock’s ticking, Bob. And I’m only getting older.
– Clint Eastwood as Frank Corvin
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
– Clint Eastwood as Robert Kincaid
Things change. They always do, it’s one of the things of nature. Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.
– Clint Eastwood as Robert Kincaid
Anyone gets hit, sing out. Slap iron to it. It’s the fastest way to stop the blood.
– Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales
Improvise, Adapt and Overcome.
– Clint Eastwood as Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway
When a man with .45 meets a man with a rifle, you said, the man with a pistol’s a dead man. Let’s see if that’s true. Go ahead, load up and shoot.
– Clint Eastwood as Joe
Two hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. We’re gonna have to earn it.
– Clint Eastwood as Blondie
A-ah. Intelligence reports that the Air Corps knocking ’em out by day and the Germans rebuilding ’em by night. Now, all we have to do is get there tomorrow morning at dawn, and we got ourselves a bridge.
– Clint Eastwood as Kelly
I have a feeling it’s really gonna be a good, long battle.
– Clint Eastwood as Blondie
I’m gonna have to carry ya, huh?
– Clint Eastwood as Marshal Jed Cooper
No, because you’re gonna be up there, baby, and I’ll be right outside showing you which way to go.
– Clint Eastwood as Kelly
Oh, I think I’ll be able to hang around for just a little bit longer.
– Clint Eastwood as John McBurney
Sergeant, this bank’s not gonna fall into the hands of the American army. It’s gonna fall in our hands. You see, we’re just a private enterprise operation.
– Clint Eastwood as Kelly
Well I haven’t exactly been the monk of the month or anything like that but I have been making an effort.
– Clint Eastwood as Dave Garver
Aw, don’t do that, son. I mean all those people down there looking up? The fire chief looking up, his face?
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Only when there’s a climb. Then the Eiger birds start flocking in.
– Clint Eastwood as Dr. Jonathan Hemlock
Good. Then… go on home, break out the books and study your little ass off. That’s the best way to maintain a “B” average. Don’t study it all off.
– Clint Eastwood as Dr. Jonathan Hemlock
Some of you will continue in your education. Some of you will continue with your interest in art. Some of you will have interests other than that. If we’ve learned nothing else this year, I hope you’ve learned the stupidity of the statement that art belongs to the world. ‘Cause art belongs to the cultivated who can appreciate it. The majority of the great unwashed does not fit into this category… and neither, I’m sorry to say, do most of you.
– Clint Eastwood as Dr. Jonathan Hemlock
There’s plain few problems can’t be solved with a little sweat and hard work.
– Clint Eastwood as the Preacher
A hand out is what you get from the government, a hand up is what you get from a friend.
– Clint Eastwood as Philo Beddoe
Don’t worry… I’m not going to let anything happen to you.
– Clint Eastwood as Philo Beddoe
We both know why Blakelock picked me for the job. I’m gonna prove he’s wrong.
– Clint Eastwood as Detective Ben Shockley
I’m who I want to be.
– Clint Eastwood as Bronco Billy
No, I do quite well all by myself.
– Clint Eastwood as Red Stovall
Twenty-eight years ago I borrowed 40 dollars from my father, packed up an old, beat up suitcase, took a bus and came here. I was seventeen at the time. While I walked through the French Quarter, I looked out over the Mississippi and swore I’d never leave.
– Clint Eastwood as Det. Wes Block
You see, we got a problem, you and me. We don’t like each other very much, but we have to take a trip together. Now you can come along peacefully or you can be a pain in the ass. But I’m warning ya, you mess around and I’ll put the cuffs on you. You talk dirty, I gag ya, if you run, I’ll shoot you. My name is Shockley, and we’ve got a plane to catch. Let’s go.
– Clint Eastwood as Detective Ben Shockley
She wants to play lumberjack, she’s going to have to learn to handle her end of the log.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Hell, no. But when I find her, I’m gonna take off that guy she’s with… my way.
– Clint Eastwood as Philo Beddoe
Yeah, I can fly it. I’m the best there is.
– Clint Eastwood as Major Mitchell Gant
I’ve got a special message for you, little pardners, out there. I want you to finish your oatmeal at breakfast and do as your mom and pa tell you because they know best. Don’t ever tell a lie and say your prayers at night before you go to bed. And as our friends south of the border say, ‘Adios, amigos.’
– Clint Eastwood as Bronco Billy
At least someone knows I tried.
– Clint Eastwood as Detective Ben Shockley
How ’bout that. I feel pretty good, really. It’s like I always tell ya kid, you gotta fight when you think it’s the right thing to do. Otherwise, you feel like your gut’s full of puss. Even if you get the hell beat outta ya, if ya fight, ya feel ok about it.
– Clint Eastwood as John Wilson
Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.
– Clint Eastwood as Luther Whitney
Every gun makes its own tune.
– Clint Eastwood as Blondie
God’s not on our side because he hates idiots, also.
– Clint Eastwood as Blondie
If your friends stay out in the damp, they’re liable to catch a cold, aren’t they? Or a bullet.
– Clint Eastwood as Blondie
See you soon, idiots. It’s for you.
– Clint Eastwood as Blondie
Sometimes the dead can be more useful than the living.
– Clint Eastwood as Joe
You see, I understand you men were just playin’ around, but the mule, he just doesn’t get it. Course, if you were to all apologize…
– Clint Eastwood as Joe
Baxter’s over there, Rojo’s there, me right smack in the middle.
– Clint Eastwood as Joe
When a man’s got money in his pocket, he begins to appreciate peace.
– Clint Eastwood as Joe
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Nick Pulovski
If you save your breath, I feel like a man you can manage.
– Clint Eastwood as Blondie
OK, you did two things wrong. First, you asked a question, and second, you asked another question.
– Clint Eastwood as Frankie Dunn
You see, my mule don’t like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you’re laughin’ at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you’re going to, I might convince him that you really didn’t mean it.
– Clint Eastwood as Joe
Dying ain’t much of a living, boy.
– Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales
No, I’m not OK. I’m sick, I’m tired and I’m armed too, so be careful.
– Clint Eastwood as Frank Horrigan
A good man always knows his limitations.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
What are you pointing the gun at the suitcase for? It’s dead already.
– Clint Eastwood as Lieutenant Speer
You want to play the game, you’d better know the rules, love.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Don’t call me buddy, pal or sweetheart.
– Clint Eastwood as Dr. Jonathan Hemlock
Wake me up if we crash into the mountain. I wouldn’t want to miss that.
– Clint Eastwood as as John Wilson
Aren’t you gonna threaten me or something?
– Clint Easwood as Mitchell Gant
I love you, Mary, but not as much as tomorrow.
– Clint Eastwood as Earl Stone
The only people who want to live to 100 are 99-year-olds
– Clint Eastwood as Earl Stone
It’s just time is all. I could buy everything, but I couldn’t buy time.
– Clint Eastwood as Earl Stone
For what it’s worth, I’m sorry for everything.
– Clint Eastwood as Earl Stone
Well, maybe I vowed to never again let my career come between me and a woman.
– Clint Eastwood as Frank Horrigan
You know what the worst day of my life was? The day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. I was probably the only person in America who wanted to commit suicide that day.
– Clint Eastwood as Frank Corvin
The old dreams were good dreams, they didn’t work out, but glad I had them.
– Clint Eastwood as Robert Kincaid
On a scale of one to ten, I’d have to give her a two, and that’s because I haven’t seen a one before.
– Clint Eastwood as Ben Shockley
Clint Eastwood Heartbreak Ridge Quotes
Clint Eastwood directed, produced, and starred in the 1986 American film Heartbreak Ridge. Heartbreak Ridge proved Eastwood’s skills as a veteran director and actor in the film industry, marking his 13th picture as a director. The movie encompasses different genres, including war, comedy, and domestic drama, while showing genuine substance and courage. Clint acted the lead character Sergeant Thomas Highway, a lifetime marine sergeant who has sacrificed everything for the call of duty.
The notable quotes of Clint Eastwood from Heartbreak Ridge include the following:
Sergeant, you get that contraband stokey out of my face, or I’ll shove it up your ass so far you’ll have to set fire to your nose to light it.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
I’ll make life takers and heart breakers out of them, sir.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
The only thing you could build, Webster… is a good case of hemorrhoids.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
With all due respect, sir, you’re beginning to bore the hell out of me.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
We move swift. We move silent. We move deadly. Only one shake of those wangs ladies. Anymore than that constutes pleasure and we’re not in that business. Sleep well, Mr. Jones?
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
You can run me, you can starve me and you can beat me and you can kill me. Just don’t bore me.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
I’m not doing this because I want to take long showers with you assholes and I don’t want to get my head shot off in some far away land because you don’t habla, comprende?
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
Take your post. The Marines are looking for a few good men. Unfortunately you ain’t it. We will blaze a path into battle for others to follow. Surrender is not in our creed. Let me here you say that.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
I’ve drank more beer, pissed more blood, and banged more quiff than all you numb-nuts put together.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
Be advised, I’m mean nasty and tired. I eat concertina wire and piss napalm and I could a round through a fleas ass at 300 yards. So why don’t you hump somebody else’s leg mutt-face before I push yours in.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
This doesn’t mean we’ll be swappin’ spit in the shower.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
The United States’ Marines is lookin’ for a few good men – you ain’t it.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
I can’t fix it if I don’t know what’s broken.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
Why don’t I bend you over the table there… send you home with the “I just pumped the neighbor’s cat” look on your face.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
Just because we’re holding hands doesn’t mean we’ll be taking warm showers together until the wee hours of the morning.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
Hey, go easy on me, or else everybody’s gonna think I’m spoken for.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
Marines are fighting men. They shouldn’t be sitting around on their sorry asses filling out request forms for equipment they should already have.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
If I was half as ugly as you, Sergeant Major, I’d be a poster boy for a prophylactic.
– Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas Highway
Clint Eastwood Gran Torino Quotes
Clint Eastwood once again starred, directed, and produced another box office hit in 2008—the American drama film Gran Torino. Sources say it grossed $148 million in the U.S. and $269 million worldwide, making it Eastwood’s second highest-grossing movie to date. Gran Torino tells the story of a disgruntled and cantankerous Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski. He subsequently develops a connection with his young neighbor, who tried to steal his 1972 Gran Torino.
Here are his notable quotes in the movie Gran Torino:
What it’s like to kill a man? Well, it’s goddamn awful, that’s what it is. The only thing worse is getting a medal for killing some poor kid, some scared little gook just like you. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about it.
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
I’ve been called a lot of things, but never funny.
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
I may not be the most pleasant person to be around, but I got the best woman who was ever on this planet to marry me. I worked at it, it was the best thing ever happened to me.
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone.
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
What the hell does everybody want with my Gran Torino?
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
Well you know, I prayed for them to come but nobody answered.
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone.
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
I’m no hero. I was just trying to get that babbling gook off my lawn!
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
I confess that I have no desire to confess.
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
The thing that haunts a guy is the stuff he wasn’t ordered to do.
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
You don’t just come in and insult the man in his own shop! You just don’t do that. What happens if you meet some stranger? You get the wrong one, he’s gonna blow your gook head right off!
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby… I guarantee you.
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalsky
Unforgiven Clint Eastwood Quotes
Unforgiven received critical recognition and praise for its directing, production, editing, storyline, and actor performances. David Webb Peoples wrote the movie in 1992, while Clint Eastwood directed and portrayed the lead character, William Munny, a retired Old West outlaw, and gunslinger. Although it may not be Eastwood’s most recognizable film, Unforgiven achieved success in the industry, gaining four Academy awards and four Oscars. Aside from that, the movie contains memorable quotes and one-liners, many of which Eastwood spoke himself.
We all have it comin,’ Kid.
– Clint Eastwood as William Munny
I’ve killed women and children. I’ve killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you, little bill, for what you done to Ned.
– Clint Eastwood as William Munny
Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.
– Clint Eastwood as William Munny
He should have armed himself… If he’s going to decorate his saloon with my friend.
– Clint Eastwood as William Munny
Its a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he’s got and everything he’s ever gonna have.
– Clint Eastwood as William Munny
What I said the other day, you looking like me, that ain’t true. You ain’t ugly like me, it’s just that we both have got scars.
– Clint Eastwood as William Munny
All right, I’m coming out. Any man I see out there, I’m gonna shoot him.
– Clint Eastwood as William Munny
You better bury Ned right!
– Clint Eastwood as William Munny
You don’t have to worry, Kid. I ain’t gonna kill you. You’re the only friend I got.
– Clint Eastwood as William Munny
I reckon so. The money’s still available, ain’t it?
– Clint Eastwood as William Munny
Clint Eastwood Top Western Movie Quotes
Clint’s acting career gave way to some of the most famous movie lines in the industry. For example, many of his Western or cowboy movies carried classic quotes and one-liners that were too good to be forgotten. Among his top Western films include “Joe Kidd,” “For a Few Dollars More,” “Pale Rider,” and “Hang ‘Em High.”
Here is a list of his top Western movie quotes:
A ranch? You mean get up at sunrise, go to bed at sunset, rearin’ the saddle all day. No thanks, sister, I’d rather be dead.
Clint Eastwood as Hogan
You people need a new sheriff.
– Clint Eastwood as Manco (a.k.a. the Man with No Name)
Next time, I’ll take your damn head off.
– Clint Eastwood as Joe Kidd
Well, if you’re waitin’ for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a long wait.
– Clint Eastwood as as the Preacher
The only problem you’ve got Sheriff is a short supply of guts.
– Clint Eastwood as as The Stranger
When you hang a man, you better look at him.
– Clint Eastwood as as Marshal Jed Cooper
My mistake. Four coffins.
– Clint Eastwood as Joe (a.k.a. the Man with No Name)
Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy.
– Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales
You see, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.
– Clint Eastwood as Blondie
Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have messed with? That’s me.
– Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalski
Every man has got to know his limitations.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry Quotes
Dirty Harry is one of Eastwood’s most recognizable films. The 1970s movie became a hit that sequels followed after its initial release. Aside from its storyline and Clint’s excellent portrayal of the lead character, Harry Callahan, the film boasts many catchy lines uttered by Eastwood. These unforgettable dialogues didn’t end in the first movie. All five films (Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Deadpool) contributed to making some of the most famous lines in the industry.
Here are several iconic Dirty Harry quotes:
When are you people gonna stop messing around with this guy? He’s gotta be stopped now.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
You know what makes me really sick to my stomach? Is watching you stuff your face with those hot dogs! Nobody, I mean nobody puts ketchup on.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
You know, you’re crazy if you think you’ve heard the last of this guy. He’s gonna kill again.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Not me, no. You’re the one who wants to get yourself killed. Not me. That always happens with you men, you know? At the last minute, you wanna grab on to something or take somebody with you, but down you go. Not me, brother.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
It’s a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
These loonies. They ought to throw a net over the whole bunch of ‘em.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Well, I’m all broken up about that man’s rights!
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Yeah, I’ve been following him on my own time. And anybody can tell I didn’t do that to him.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Wait a minute. Do I get this right? You’re gonna play this creep’s game?
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
You heroes killed a dozen people this week. What are you going to do next week?
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
You’re out of bullets. And you know what that means… you’re shit outta luck.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don’t you call them right now and have them send down an ambulance. Tell them there’s two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Briggs, I hate the goddamn system! But until someone comes along with changes that make sense, I’ll stick with it.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Well, opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Yeah… you’re a legend in your own mind.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
You’ve got to ask yourself a question: ‘do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Now you know why they call me “Dirty Harry”. I get every dirty job that comes along.
– Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Best Quotes of Clint Eastwood
Aside from his famous movie lines, Clint himself shared a wide range of phrases and sentences, showing his knowledge and expertise. Some of these words talk about the self, dreams, acting, and even aging. Hence, his best quotes found popularity in today’s time, noticeable in how people use them sometimes in movies, social media posts, and conversations.
Here is a look at Clint Eastwood’s best quotes:
I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.
– Clint Eastwood
I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.
– Clint Eastwood
I keep working because I learn something new all the time.
– Clint Eastwood
There has to be something in every role that interests you.
– Clint Eastwood
Actors know, with me, they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.
– Clint Eastwood
Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
– Clint Eastwood
We boil at different degrees.
– Clint Eastwood
I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.
– Clint Eastwood
You always want to quit while you’re 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
I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
– Clint Eastwood
Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
– Clint Eastwood
I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.
– Clint Eastwood
I guess, maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.
– Clint Eastwood
If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.
– 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
Self-Reflection Quotes from Clint Eastwood
Eastwood has lived and acted for decades now, so he has shown acts of self-reflection on and off-screen. For example, his films Gran Torino and The Mule displayed subtle hints of self-reflection and looking back in the past. He also spoke notable quotes on the mentioned topic off-screen, and it’s hard not to appreciate these lines, especially since they’re coming off from a legendary icon like Clint.
Here are Clint Eastwood’s self-reflection quotes:
I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.
– Clint Eastwood
My whole life has been one big improvisation.
– 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
I’m a day-to-day-type person.
– Clint Eastwood
As I get older, I tend to put more into my family than I used to.
– Clint Eastwood
I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.
– 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’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.
– Clint Eastwood
I’m just a kid—I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.
– Clint Eastwood
I’ve never met a genius. A genius, to me, is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves—it’s just a question of finding the subject.
– Clint Eastwood
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
– Clint Eastwood
There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is, I’ll get married again.
– Clint Eastwood
When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
– Clint Eastwood
I do believe in self-help.
– Clint Eastwood
If I was not a dreamer, I would have achieved nothing.
– Clint Eastwood
I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.
– Clint Eastwood
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 have to let them go.
– Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood Quotes About Acting and Filmmaking
Clint Eastwood lived a long, successful career in the film industry. He starred in many Western films, produced and directed several more, embracing different styles and genres. As a prolific filmmaker and versatile actor, his words inspire and motivate today’s generation. Hence, he became a pop culture icon looked up to by many actors, directors, and producers in the industry.
Here are Clint Eastwood’s quotes about acting and filmmaking.
Improvise, adapt, and overcome!
– Clint Eastwood
In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.
– Clint Eastwood
I’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
– Clint Eastwood
Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.
– Clint Eastwood
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.
– Clint Eastwood
I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.
– Clint Eastwood
I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.
– Clint Eastwood
Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.
– Clint Eastwood
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?
– Clint Eastwood
You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.
– Clint Eastwood
There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out.
– Clint Eastwood
It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
– Clint Eastwood
I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.
– Clint Eastwood
I have worked ever since I was 13.
– Clint Eastwood
I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
– Clint Eastwood
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.
– Clint Eastwood
It would be great to be 105 and still making films.
– Clint Eastwood
I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.
– Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood Wise Quotes
Aside from his undeniable talent as an actor, director, and producer, Clint provided words of wisdom that even those who weren’t in the film industry benefit from his quotes. His wise career choices and achievements reflected his knowledge and life philosophy, making him a well-respected individual and role model for many.
Listed below are Clint Eastwood’s wise quotes, which will hopefully become a helpful aid for anyone who aspires to venture into their path to excellence.
If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.
– Clint Eastwood
Some people feel that the world owes them a living.
– 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
Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing—emotionally as well as physically?
– Clint Eastwood
Every story has its demands.
– Clint Eastwood
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.
– Clint Eastwood
Let’s put it this way—there wouldn’t be much point in me attending a high school reunion now because there wouldn’t be anybody there. We’d struggle to raise a quorum.
– Clint Eastwood
I’m not a regrets-type person.
– Clint Eastwood
Men must know their limitations.
– Clint Eastwood
We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
– Clint Eastwood
Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realization that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist.
– Clint Eastwood
I don’t mind telling the dark side.
– Clint Eastwood
Man becomes his most creative during war.
– Clint Eastwood
I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.
– Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood Inspiring Quotes About Life and Others
There is a lot to learn from Clint Eastwood’s remarks and words on and off-screen. As someone born during the Great Depression, Clint experienced the difficulty and challenges life has to offer. Hence, his experience and knowledge in the industry brought some of today’s inspiring words that will motivate anyone to live the life they want. Along with quotes on various topics, here is a list of the living legend, Clint Eastwood’s quotes about life, and others.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better you have to take things into your own hands.
– Clint Eastwood
I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
– Clint Eastwood
Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously.
– Clint Eastwood
Improvise, adapt and overcome.
– Clint Eastwood
They say marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
– Clint Eastwood
Fate pulls you in different directions.
– Clint Eastwood
You should never give up your inner self.
– Clint Eastwood
We all boil at different degrees.
– Clint Eastwood
There’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 Eastwood
People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.
– Clint Eastwood
Nothing wrong with shooting… as long as the right people get shot.
– Clint Eastwood
Participating in a gun buyback program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.
– Clint Eastwood
Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
– Clint Eastwood
What you put into life is what you get out of it.
– Clint Eastwood
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.
– 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
It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.
– 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 tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.
– Clint Eastwood
I have a very strict gun control policy; if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
– Clint Eastwood
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
I don’t wanna need you because I can’t have you.
– Clint Eastwood
My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I’m attracted to her in every way possible, but that’s not the answer. Because I’ve been attracted to other people, and I couldn’t stand ’em after a while.
– Clint Eastwood
If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it’s an art form or whether it’s just in life, it comes off—you don’t have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.
– Clint Eastwood
A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime
– Clint Eastwood
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
– Clint Eastwood
It’s not about you. It’s about them.
– Clint Eastwood
Like most pictures that I’ve done, I’ve had no idea whether anyone would ever want to see ’em. But I figured, I’d like to see it.
– Clint Eastwood
Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
– Clint Eastwood
War pictures are always fascinating for people; they were for me growing up, even though I’m not nuts about war.” “War is the ultimate conflict, and conflict is the basis of drama to begin with.
– Clint Eastwood
Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.
– Clint Eastwood
Everybody’s got a right to be a sucker once.
– Clint Eastwood
Nobody calls me mister with my boots off.
– Clint Eastwood
Bout time this town had a new sheriff.
– Clint Eastwood
I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.
– Clint Eastwood
These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage, they go on and on with all this bullshit about ‘sanctity.’ Don’t give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.
– Clint Eastwood
There’s always the possibility that some asshole will be offended. Isn’t there?
– Clint Eastwood
Internet! Who needs it?
– Clint Eastwood
I thought it was more important to be somebody out there than the damn failure I was here at my own home
– Clint Eastwood
What would happen if I gave up my job for you?
– Clint Eastwood
Sweetheart, if there’s any justice on this planet, they’ll never make you give back that red dress.
– Clint Eastwood
Maybe I’m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot – both on the Right and the Left.
– Clint Eastwood
Extremism is so easy. You’ve got your position, and that’s it. It doesn’t take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
– Clint Eastwood
It’s a hell of a thing; killin’ a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.
– Clint Eastwood
Having to wade through the scum of this city, being swept away by bigger and bigger waves of corruption, apathy and red tape. Nah, that doesn’t bother me.
– Clint Eastwood
I’ve got to go have my pacemaker checked, it has been so exciting talking to you.
– Clint Eastwood
Legendary actor, filmmaker, and political figure Clint Eastwood become a stoic hero for many Western movies and series and cultural icon of masculinity. His evident talent and life philosophy paved the way for a long, successful career that many aspire to achieve today. Hence why today, his words motivate people to embrace their potential and be the star of their stories.