Eastwood Quotes & Sayings

I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables. — Clint Eastwood

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days. — Clint Eastwood

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. — Clint Eastwood

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through. — Clint Eastwood

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know. — Clint Eastwood

I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such an appreciation for beauty and kindness that it was inherent. — Alison Eastwood

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood

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

Things always look different from higher up. — Clint Eastwood

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

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go ... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?' — Clint Eastwood

I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy. — Clint Eastwood

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

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal. — Clint Eastwood

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life. — Clint Eastwood

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

After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, "Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I ever see in it in the first place?" You have to shut off your brain and forge ahead, because by that time you're getting so brainwashed. Once I commit myself to a film I commit myself to that ending, whatever the motivations and conclusions are. — Clint Eastwood

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. — Clint Eastwood

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

Grandma has a .45 long barrel that she keeps hidden from my mother. She got it from her friend Elsie, who picked it up at a yard sale. Probably it was in Grandma's purse. Grandma says it gives the bag some heft, in case she has to beat off a mugger. This might be true, but I think mostly Grandma likes pretending she is Clint Eastwood. — Janet Evanovich

Only a writer will hold conversations between people that don't exist. We don't talk to ourselves we talk to the people we created from nothing. — Joseph Eastwood

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt. — Clint Eastwood

I just don't like killing creatures. — Clint Eastwood

Every man has got to know his limitations. — Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't exist. — Bill Maher

I never understood actors who could just wait around. — Scott Eastwood

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five? — Clint Eastwood

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom. — Clint Eastwood

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. — Clint Eastwood

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him. — Clint Eastwood

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest. — Clint Eastwood

Society is at odds with itself. — Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there. — Robert Wyatt

All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess. — Clint Eastwood

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. — Clint Eastwood

My dad never took himself too seriously. He always treated everyone with respect, and he made sure I was like that, too. I show up, I hit my mark, and I say my lines. — Scott Eastwood

I believe that everybody, whether you believe in the afterlife or the chance of a near-death experience and you come back and you see someone [on the other side] - whether that has happened or not, I don't know, but certainly everyone has thought about it at some point or another in time. It's a fantasy that if there is anything out there like that, it would be just terrific, but that remains to be seen. — Clint Eastwood

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them. — Clint Eastwood

I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it. — Alison Eastwood

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

I like working. That's when I'm feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that. — Clint Eastwood

I never look back and think too much about my films. I've done some work I've been proud of over the years but which of them is my favourite I really don't know. I could say the last one. I've had little jumps in my career like Unforgiven possibly. — Clint Eastwood

I can't do that to myself! — Clint Eastwood

Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood. — Jane Fonda

Clint Eastwood doesn't moisturize! But Clint Eastwood needs to moisturize! — Christopher Titus

When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical. — Joe Manganiello

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something. — Clint Eastwood

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

Love finds you. You always get smacked with love when you least expect it. — Scott Eastwood

I'm a big fan of Clint Eastwood, but the Westerns I draw from most directly come from an earlier period in Hollywood. I actually look back at movies like 'Rio Bravo' and others I've liked over the years, and I capture pictures from the movies and use them as a reference for the scenes I create. — Steve Sheinkin

Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it. — Clint Eastwood

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it. — Clint Eastwood

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict. — Clint Eastwood

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy. — Charlton Heston

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. — Clint Eastwood

[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character. — Clint Eastwood

Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully. — Clint Eastwood

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself. — Scott Eastwood

What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation. — Pauline Kael

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. — Clint Eastwood

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel. — Clint Eastwood

It would be great to be 105 and still making films. — Clint Eastwood

Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would all agree that it's all based upon material and the material has got to spark with you. It may be great material but you think it's great material for somebody else. Or it's great material and I'm perfect for it. So, you just have to make that judgment and if you feel in the mood to do it. — Clint Eastwood

I still work out on a daily basis. — Clint Eastwood

Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor. — Ken Watanabe

A good man always knows his limitations. — Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood's a good friend, too - he and I used to play in softball games together. — Lee Majors

I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have. — Clint Eastwood

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

I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have ... or just as much certainly. I enjoy making films behind the camera equally to making them in front of the camera on all those years. I just enjoy it, that's all. I've been lucky enough to work in a profession that I have really liked and so I figured I'd just continue until someone hits me over the head and says "get out". — Clint Eastwood

I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns. — Ben Mendelsohn

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote. — Clint Eastwood

Characters are limbs that writers use to kill with. — Joseph Eastwood

When you hang a man, you better look at him. — Clint Eastwood

I'll probably not be the best actor in Hollywood, and I am okay with that. But I will be the hardest working one, and I'll be the one that people like to work with because I show up on time, and I don't complain. — Scott Eastwood

[Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such as Chimp Haven, who are now taking in over two hundred medical lab chimps released from government-funded medical testing labs. — Alison Eastwood

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

I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen. — Clint Eastwood

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

I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood. — Randeep Hooda

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

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

People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you. — Ice-T

Go ahead, make my day. — Clint Eastwood

What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden. — Clint Eastwood

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody. — Clint Eastwood

I'm a day-to-day-type person. — Clint Eastwood

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama. — Clint Eastwood

Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so. — Clint Eastwood

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music. — Clint Eastwood

My dad was always super-active and got me in the gym at a young age. He wanted me to be health-conscious. 'Healthy body, healthy mind'; that's what he preached to me. — Scott Eastwood

There was a shared sigh as the boys ran off behind Radley, thanking God for not killing them, and telling him how they'd be better people and do their homework from now on. — Joseph Eastwood

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. — Clint Eastwood

All I'm going to say is that I worked with Christopher Walken the other day. I can cross him and working with Clint Eastwood off my bucket list! — Jeremy Luke

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy - anything that has a good story. — Scott Eastwood

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain. — Michele Lee

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. — Clint Eastwood

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time. — Clint Eastwood

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close. — Scott Eastwood

I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film. — John Lloyd Young