3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood 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.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood 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.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood 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.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood 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.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood 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.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood 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.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.
