Top 200 Clint Eastwood Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It’s fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.”

— Clint Eastwood

202. “I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.”

— Clint Eastwood

203. “I’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.”

— Clint Eastwood

204. “The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.”

— Clint Eastwood

205. “I’d been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I first started directing, I if I could pull this off, I can some day just move in back of the camera and stay there.”

— Clint Eastwood

206. “I’m more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.”

— Clint Eastwood

207. “I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.”

— Clint Eastwood

208. “My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ’em over and over.”

— Clint Eastwood

209. “You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life – that’s all you care about.”

— Clint Eastwood

210. “Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.”

— Clint Eastwood

211. “Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?”

— Clint Eastwood

212. “Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don’t know if that’s true or not.”

— Clint Eastwood

213. “I still work out on a daily basis.”

— Clint Eastwood

214. “I’ve lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it’s not for me to really judge it. I’ll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.”

— Clint Eastwood

215. “You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.”

— Clint Eastwood

216. “At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I’m not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.”

— Clint Eastwood

217. “The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, “That was an exciting film.””

— Clint Eastwood

218. “Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.”

— Clint Eastwood

219. “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.”

— Clint Eastwood

220. “Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let’s spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.”

— Clint Eastwood

221. “If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re gonna have to take what they get.”

— Clint Eastwood

222. “The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, “How many roles are there for someone my age?””

— Clint Eastwood

223. “I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.”

— Clint Eastwood

224. “To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there’s a lot of things to choose from.”

— Clint Eastwood

225. “When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.”

— Clint Eastwood

226. “I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.”

— Clint Eastwood

227. “That’s the secret to a movie career – just keeping an open mind.”

— Clint Eastwood

228. “If you feel like you’ve got something to offer you should do it while the iron’s hot.”

— Clint Eastwood

229. “I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.”

— Clint Eastwood

230. “I don’t watch a lot of films. I’m usually involved in making them.”

— Clint Eastwood

231. “If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they’re often told from a political perspective.”

— Clint Eastwood

232. “Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.”

— Clint Eastwood