Top 200 Clint Eastwood Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Clint Eastwood

102. “Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he’s going to need it. It’s going to be difficult for him.”

— Clint Eastwood

103. “I don’t mind telling a dark side.”

— Clint Eastwood

104. “Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you’re fighting an uphill battle.”

— Clint Eastwood

105. “Once you finish a film, it doesn’t belong to you anymore – it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.”

— Clint Eastwood

106. “Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that’s out of your control and you can’t think about that. You just have to follow your head and make sure that you’re satisfied by putting down what you intended.”

— Clint Eastwood

107. “You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.”

— Clint Eastwood

108. “I’m past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.”

— Clint Eastwood

109. “I don’t necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.”

— Clint Eastwood

110. “That’s why I don’t rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I’d like to take the character, but we both end up going together.”

— Clint Eastwood

111. “With people in high office, the old – you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.”

— Clint Eastwood

112. “Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.”

— Clint Eastwood

113. “I haven’t been very active in politics.”

— Clint Eastwood

114. “When you’re making a movie, you can’t think anybody will ever see it. You’ve just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.”

— Clint Eastwood

115. “The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn’t ordered to do.”

— Clint Eastwood

116. “I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you’d call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.”

— Clint Eastwood

117. “The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.”

— Clint Eastwood

118. “A man’s just gotta know his limits.”

— Clint Eastwood

119. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

121. “Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.”

— Clint Eastwood

122. “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.”

— Clint Eastwood

123. “Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.”

— Clint Eastwood

124. “If you’re afraid to take risks in anything in life, it’s just boredom.”

— Clint Eastwood

125. “My old drama coach used to say, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.”

— Clint Eastwood

126. “When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.”

— Clint Eastwood

127. “A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.”

— Clint Eastwood

128. “Everybody always feels that they’re right even if they’re wrong and that’s what a whole actor’s career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you’re playing.”

— Clint Eastwood

129. “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.”

— Clint Eastwood

130. “I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.”

— Clint Eastwood

131. “On a scale of one to ten you’re a two, and that’s cuz I’ve never seen a one.”

— Clint Eastwood

132. “Don’t look at me like I’ve gotten old or something like that.”

— Clint Eastwood

133. “It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.”

— Clint Eastwood

134. “We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.”

— Clint Eastwood

135. “I do believe in self-help.”

— Clint Eastwood

136. “I like a drama. And I think that’s the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.”

— Clint Eastwood

137. “In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.”

— Clint Eastwood

138. “If you’ve done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it’s yours. And if people don’t like it, then they just don’t agree with you on that subject matter, and that’s life.”

— Clint Eastwood

139. “In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.”

— Clint Eastwood

140. “Pose? I don’t pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?”

— Clint Eastwood

141. “I know what you’re thinking ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?”

— Clint Eastwood

142. “A lot of people regret, because we live in a society that reveres being at the prime of life and everything, but you have certain primes at certain times, and mine happens to be...”

— Clint Eastwood

143. “I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.”

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

145. “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.”

— Clint Eastwood

146. “I couldn’t tell you exactly what I like about golf. Just when you think you’ve got it mastered it lets you know you haven’t. I’m just crazy enough to do it.”

— Clint Eastwood

147. “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.”

— Clint Eastwood

148. “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.”

— Clint Eastwood

149. “I haven’t killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.”

— Clint Eastwood

150. “Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.”

— Clint Eastwood