Top 200 Clint Eastwood Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.”

— Clint Eastwood

152. “Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.”

— Clint Eastwood

153. “Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.”

— Clint Eastwood

154. “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.”

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

156. “I don’t write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don’t write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.”

— Clint Eastwood

157. “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.”

— Clint Eastwood

158. “I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn’t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.”

— Clint Eastwood

159. “I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.”

— Clint Eastwood

160. “You get to a certain age and you’re just glad to be there. I don’t know what to add to that. It’s fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.”

— Clint Eastwood

161. “I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.”

— Clint Eastwood

162. “There’s a lot of young guys coming along, but I’d like to say to the various financiers, don’t forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.”

— Clint Eastwood

163. “Society is at odds with itself.”

— Clint Eastwood

164. “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.”

— Clint Eastwood

165. “The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.”

— Clint Eastwood

166. “If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.”

— Clint Eastwood

167. “Being comfortable is over-rated.”

— Clint Eastwood

168. “Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there’s free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I’ll kill you. I mean it.”

— Clint Eastwood

169. “I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.”

— Clint Eastwood

170. “It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.”

— Clint Eastwood

171. “Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree.”

— Clint Eastwood

172. “They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.”

— Clint Eastwood

173. “I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.”

— Clint Eastwood

174. “If you cast a film incorrectly, then you’re going to be fighting an uphill battle.”

— Clint Eastwood

175. “When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?”

— Clint Eastwood

176. “I just don’t want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.”

— Clint Eastwood

177. “Great stories teach you something. That’s one reason I haven’t slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I’m learning something new.”

— Clint Eastwood

178. “I’m suffering from oxygen deprivation. It’s overwhelming watching your career go by.”

— Clint Eastwood

179. “Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.”

— Clint Eastwood

180. “I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.”

— Clint Eastwood

181. “In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.”

— Clint Eastwood

182. “I’m trying to preach the idea that if we don’t pay attention to history we’re destined to repeat it.”

— Clint Eastwood

183. “Like most pictures that I’ve done, I’ve had no idea whether anyone would ever want to see ’em. But I figured, I’d like to see it.”

— Clint Eastwood

184. “Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.”

— Clint Eastwood

185. “No, I don’t have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you’re in character, you’re in character. You don’t sit there purposely thinking, Well, I’ll grunt here, or I’ll groan there.”

— Clint Eastwood

186. “I’ve got to learn French because I’ve been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.”

— Clint Eastwood

187. “If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.”

— Clint Eastwood

188. “Every story has its demands.”

— Clint Eastwood

189. “I’ve done a few special effects movies in my life, so I’ve gotten that out of my system.”

— Clint Eastwood

190. “My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.”

— Clint Eastwood

191. “I can’t do that to myself!”

— Clint Eastwood

192. “As a movie actor, once you’ve become known, you’re observed all the time so you don’t get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it’s not quite the same and there’s something to be said for a more anonymous life.”

— Clint Eastwood

193. “We don’t even know who’s in the Academy.”

— Clint Eastwood

194. “You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people’s characteristics so that you can design characters around what you’ve seen.”

— Clint Eastwood

195. “Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That’s the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman’s breasts!”

— Clint Eastwood

196. “Directing is more like you’re being a psychologist and you’re kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.”

— Clint Eastwood

197. “If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.”

— Clint Eastwood

198. “I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.”

— Clint Eastwood

199. “When you’re making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It’s not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.”

— Clint Eastwood

200. “Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.”

— Clint Eastwood