Top 200 Clint Eastwood Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.”

— Clint Eastwood

152. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

154. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

161. “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

162. “Society is at odds with itself.”

— Clint Eastwood

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

167. “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

168. “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

169. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

171. “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

172. “Being comfortable is over-rated.”

— 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. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

184. “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

185. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

187. “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

188. “I can’t do that to myself!”

— Clint Eastwood

189. “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

190. “Every story has its demands.”

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

192. “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

193. “You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That’s the way you do it in life and every other subject.”

— Clint Eastwood

194. “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

195. “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

196. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

198. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

200. “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