Top 200 Clint Eastwood Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!”

— Clint Eastwood

2. “Self-respect leads to self-discipline.”

— Clint Eastwood

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3. “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

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4. “Go ahead, make my day.”

— Clint Eastwood

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5. “It’s not about you. It’s about them.”

— Clint Eastwood

6. “They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”

— Clint Eastwood

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7. “Tomorrow is promised to no one.”

— Clint Eastwood

8. “Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.”

— Clint Eastwood

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9. “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”

— Clint Eastwood

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10. “A good man always knows his limitations.”

— Clint Eastwood

11. “Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.”

— Clint Eastwood

12. “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

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13. “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

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14. “Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone.”

— Clint Eastwood

15. “You should never give up your inner self.”

— Clint Eastwood

16. “I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.”

— Clint Eastwood

17. “I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”

— Clint Eastwood

18. “It’s always fun to talk about jazz.”

— Clint Eastwood

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19. “The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.”

— Clint Eastwood

20. “There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.”

— Clint Eastwood

21. “What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.”

— Clint Eastwood

22. “If you think it’s going to rain, it will.”

— Clint Eastwood

23. “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

24. “Participating in a gun buy-back 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

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

— Clint Eastwood

26. “Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have messed with? That’s me.”

— Clint Eastwood

27. “My whole life has been one big improvisation.”

— Clint Eastwood

28. “When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.”

— Clint Eastwood

29. “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

30. “One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.”

— Clint Eastwood

31. “Fate pulls you in different directions.”

— Clint Eastwood

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32. “It’s what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.”

— Clint Eastwood

33. “I don’t wanna need you because I can’t have you.”

— Clint Eastwood

34. “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.”

— Clint Eastwood

35. “It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.”

— Clint Eastwood

36. “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

37. “I keep working because I learn something new all the time.”

— Clint Eastwood

38. “I am sort of anti-hunting. I don’t put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.”

— Clint Eastwood

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39. “Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.”

— Clint Eastwood

40. “You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.”

— Clint Eastwood

41. “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.”

— Clint Eastwood

42. “A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.”

— Clint Eastwood

43. “The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.”

— Clint Eastwood

44. “A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime.”

— Clint Eastwood

45. “The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don’t have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.”

— Clint Eastwood

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46. “I don’t see myself as conservative, but I’m not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. 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

47. “Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.”

— Clint Eastwood

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48. “I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.”

— Clint Eastwood

49. “If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.”

— Clint Eastwood

50. “I was drafted during the Korean War.”

— Clint Eastwood