Clint Eastwood quotes

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

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 air bags in it, then it's no good.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

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

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

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

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

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.

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.

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.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

I love stories about women.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

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.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

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.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

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

Man becomes his most creative during war.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

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

We boil at different degrees.

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.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

I love big business!

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

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.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

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.

Society is at odds with itself.

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

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

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.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

I've had no problem harnessing anger.

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

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

I haven't been very active in politics.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.