Selected Clint Eastwood Quotes
Clint Eastwood- Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director and composer. He achieved success in the Western TV series "Rawhide". He rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s. He also gained more fame as antihero cop "Harry Callahan" in the five "Dirty Harry films" throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. He also served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California starting in 1986.
His greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy "Every Which Way but Loose" (1978) and its action comedy sequel "Any Which Way You Can" (1980). Some of his other popular films include the Westerns "Hang 'Em High" (1968) and "Pale Rider" (1985), the action-war film Where "Eagles Dare" (1968), the prison film "Escape from Alcatraz" (1979), the war film "Heartbreak Ridge" (1986), the action film In the "Line of Fire" (1993), and the romantic drama "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995). His more recent films include "Gran Torino" (2008), "The Mule" (2018), and "Cry Macho" (2021).
Since 1967, his film company, Malpaso Productions, has produced all but four of his American films. An Academy Award nominee for Best Actor, Eastwood won Best Director and Best Picture for his Western film "Unforgiven" (1992) and his sports drama "Million Dollar Baby" (2004). Besides directing many of his own films, he has also directed films such as the mystery drama "Mystic River" (2003) and the war film "Letters from Iwo Jima" (2006), for which he received an Academy Award nominations. He also directed the biographical films "Changeling" (2008), "Invictus" (2009), "American Sniper" (2014), "Sully" (2016), and "Richard Jewell" (2019).
His achievements include four Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, three César Awards, and an AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2000, he received the Italian Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion award, honoring his lifetime achievements. He is bestowed two of France's highest civilian honors. He received the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1994 and the Legion of Honour in 2007. He has eight children.
Selected Clint Eastwood Quotes:
As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
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, Goals
I don’t mind telling a dark side.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I’m a day-to-day-type person.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I do believe in self-help.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I’m not a regrets-type person.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
Men must know their limitations.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
If I was not a dreamer, I would have achieved nothing.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
You should never give up your inner self.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
Respect your efforts, respect yourself.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
Clint Eastwood, Goals, Life
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, Goals, Life
Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
Clint Eastwood, Goals, Life, Happiness
I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.
Clint Eastwood, Life
I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.
Clint Eastwood, Life
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Clint Eastwood, Life
We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
Clint Eastwood, Life
My whole life has been one big improvisation.
Clint Eastwood, Life
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood, Life
What you put into life is what you get out of it.
Clint Eastwood, Life
If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.
Clint Eastwood, Life
Tomorrow is promised to no one.
Clint Eastwood, Life
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, Life
There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.
Clint Eastwood, Life
I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.
Clint Eastwood, Life
We boil at different degrees.
Clint Eastwood, Life
Fate pulls you in different directions.
Clint Eastwood, Life
Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
Clint Eastwood, Power
There has to be something in every role that interests you.
Clint Eastwood, Art
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, Art
I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
Clint Eastwood, Art
It would be great to be 105 and still making films.
Clint Eastwood, Art
Every story has its demands.
Clint Eastwood, Art
I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.
Clint Eastwood, Art
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, Art
I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.
Clint Eastwood, Art, Goals
Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.
Clint Eastwood, Success
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, Success, Government
I have worked ever since I was 13.
Clint Eastwood, Work
I keep working because I learn something new all the time.
Clint Eastwood, Work
A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime.
Clint Eastwood, Love
They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
Clint Eastwood, Love
Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
Clint Eastwood, Society
Society is at odds with itself.
Clint Eastwood, Society
Man becomes his most creative during war.
Clint Eastwood, Anger and Fighting
I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.