Clint Eastwood Quotes

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can’t see any difference between take one and take 20.

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.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

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.

Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

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.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

On ‘Mystic River,’ I had to cut my salary and everyone else’s to get it made.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

Every story has its demands.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

I don’t think I’ve met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

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.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‘Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.’ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.