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Maybe I`m Getting To The Age When I`m Starting To Be Senile Or Nostalgic Or Both, But People Are So Angry Now. You Used To Be Able To Disagree With People And Still Be Friends. Now You Hear These Talk Shows, And Everyone Who Believes Differently From You Is A Moron And An Idiot - Both On The Right And The Left.

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Maybe I`m Getting To The Age When I`m Starting To Be Senile Or Nostalgic Or Both, But People Are So Angry Now. You Used To Be Able To Disagree With People And Still Be Friends. Now You Hear These Talk Shows, And Everyone Who Believes Differently From You Is A Moron And An Idiot - Both On The Right And The Left.

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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.

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.

I Was Always Annoyed By Too Much Explaining.

I Guess It's Like Trying To Put Through The Flat Tax, Which Is Probably My Favorite One Of All.... If We Did Pass It, All Of A Sudden, What Do You Have? You Have The Whole Tax System Run By A Little Old Lady On A Home Computer, Doing The Work Of All These Thousands Of Bureaucrats And Accountants. Passing That Would Be Amazing, Wouldn't It?

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.

You Have To Teach Yourself To Act But Michael Chekhov Will Give You The Necessary Tools - And For Me, Psychological Gesture And Centers Are Extremely Valuable They Work Like A Charm. I've Used Them All Along And Still Do.

Ever Notice How You Come Across Somebody Once In A While You Shouldn't Have Messed With? That's Me.

Extremism Is So Easy. You've Got Your Position, And That's It. It Doesn't Take Much Thought. And When You Go Far Enough To The Right You Meet The Same Idiots Coming Around From The Left.

Tomorrow Is Promised To No One.

The Country Has Come A Long Way In Race Relations, But The Pendulum Swings So Far Back. Everyone Wants To Be So Sensitive.

I Always Revered People That I Thought Had An Idea And Proceeded Through With It. I Guess I've Been That Way Since The Day I Called My Father And Told Him I Was Going To Study Acting And Maybe Try To See If I Could Do Well With That, And He Told Me: "don't Do That. You Don't Want To Do That, That's Just Dream Stuff. Get A Legitimate Job And Move Forward."

If The Director's A Communist, Whatever, He's A Communist. All I Care Is That He Directs. For The Actor, The Same Thing. All You Really Care Is That He Comes In And Performs.

Acting To Me Is A Very Organic Art Form And You Just Go And Do It. And I Like To Direct The Same Way That I Like To Be Directed. Let Me Bring In What I Want To Bring In, And If Something's Wrong, Just Tell Me About It And I'll Make Some Corrections Or Adjustments. And That's What I Do.

Crimes Against Children Are The Most Heinous Crime. That, For Me, Would Be A Reason For Capital Punishment Because Children Are Innocent And Need The Guidance Of An Adult Society.

You Spend Your Life Training To Be An Actor, Observing People's Characteristics So That You Can Design Characters Around What You've Seen.

I Like A Drama. And I Think That's The Basis Of Good Films, Or Good Plays, Is To Have A Nice Drama.

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.

A Love Like This Happens But Once In A Lifetime

Once In A Lifetime

Abuse Of Power Isn't Limited To 'bad Guys' In Other Nations. It Happens In Our Own Country. Those In Power Get Jaded, Deluded, And Seduced By Power Itself. I Have A Reverence For Individuality. I've Always Considered Myself Too Individualistic To Be Either Right-wing Or Left-wing. I Like The Libertarian View, Which Is To Leave Everyone Alone. People Should Be Able To Be What They Want To Be And Do What They Want - As Long As They're Not Harming Other People. I Am A Libertarian.

I Never Expect Anything. I Am Always Amazed At Why Anybody Goes To Any Movie Or Why Anybody Doesn't Go To Any Movie. Any Movie You Make, You Make It Because You're Hoping Somebody Wants To See It, But You Never Know.

At Some Point In Your Fife, Your Tolerance Level Goes Down And You Realize That, With Someone Much Younger, There's Nothing Really To Talk About. And I Think We're At A Point Now Where A Lot Of Older Women Take Better Care Of Themselves, Compared To The 1940s And '50s When Women Were Programmed To Figure It's All Over After 30.

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!

I Mean, I've Always Been A Libertarian. Leave Everybody Alone. Let Everybody Else Do What They Want. Just Stay Out Of Everybody Else's Hair.

Abuse Of Power Isn't Limited To Bad Guys In Other Nations. It Happens In Our Own Country If We're Not Vigilant.

We Were Dealing With Films That Had Very Prominent Roles For Women And I Felt I Was Actually Contributing Something. Many People Had Wondered Why I Would Want To Do A Film Where The Best Part Was A Woman's Part. But I Wasn't Afraid To Be The Lesser Intelligence In A Film.

You See, In This World, There's Two Kinds Of People, My Friend - Those With Loaded Guns, And Those Who Dig. You Dig.

Romney And Ryan Would Do A Much Better Job Running The Country, And That's What Everybody Needs To Know.

Being Comfortable Is Over-rated.

A Lot Of People Are Realizing They Had The Wool Pulled Over Their Eyes By Obama.

It's A Very Confusing Era That We're In.

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.

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.

You Have To Trust Your Instincts. There Is A Moment When An Actor Has It, And He Knows It.

I'm Always Trying To Tackle Subjects That Tax Me And Make Me Think. That's The Key To Staying Young At Heart. The Brain Has To Be Exercised The Same As The Rest Of The Body.

Maybe I`m Getting To The Age When I`m Starting To Be Senile Or Nostalgic Or Both, But People Are So Angry Now. You Used To Be Able To Disagree With People And Still Be Friends. Now You Hear These Talk Shows, And Everyone Who Believes Differently From You Is A Moron And An Idiot - Both On The Right And The Left.

Music Does Have A Very Special Place In My Heart. I Enjoy It Very Much. I Suppose It Is My First Love And I Do A Lot Of It. It Seems To Be When You Are Making A Project It Inspires You Sometimes To Jot Down Something That You Think Fits The Situation.

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.

When I Was Young There Was No Respect For The Young, And Now That I Am Old There Is No Respect For The Old

A Lot Of Times People Get To A Certain Age And They Quit. I Always Felt Sorry For The Frank Capras, The Billy Wilders, Directors Like That, Because They Quit In Their Sixties. Why Would You Quit? Think Of The Great Work They Could've Done In Their Sixties, Seventies, And On Up.

I'm Not A Chick-flick Enthusiast.

I'd Say People Get To Work And Start Being More Understanding Of Everybody - Instead Of Calling Everybody Names, Start Being More Understanding. But Get In There And Get It Done. Kick Ass And Take Names. And This May Be My Dad Talking, But Don't Spend What You Don't Have.

For A Man, Once You've Sired Your Pups, You're Done.

I Found Out That A Lot Of My Liberal Friends Weren't Liberal Because They Weren't Liberal About Approaching Anybody Else's Ideas, Or At Least Standing For It. They Started Getting Really Animalistic About, "i Can't Even Associate With This Guy. He's Stupid. He's An Idiot."

I've Never Been On A Movie Where They Play Five-dollar Friday. I Must Not Be Very Observant.

Today, The Only Thing Hollywood Swears By Is Space Adventures Because That's What Goes Over Well. For My Part, I Trust My Instinct And I Make The Films I Believe In. If The Public Follows Me, That's Wonderful. If It Doesn't Follow, "c'est La Vie.

It's What People Know About Themselves Inside That Makes Them Afraid.

I Don't Really Get Into A Big Intellectual Analysis Of Why I Am Going To Do A Certain Script Or Not.

I've Never Met A Genius. A Genius To Me Is Someone Who Does Well At Something He Hates. Anybody Can Do Well At Something He Loves - It's Just A Question Of Finding The Subject.

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.

Whatever The Drama Of The Story Is, You Have To Be True To It.

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.

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.

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.

When Anybody Gives You An Award, It Could Be Wrong. You’ve Just Got To Bear That It Mind And Go Ahead And Enjoy It. Like Morgan Says, It’s A Pat On The Back, So Great You’ll Take It And Then Move On.

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.

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.

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.

I'm Trying To Preach The Idea That If We Don't Pay Attention To History We're Destined To Repeat It.

Conflict Is The Basis Of Drama. I Guess That Goes Back As Long As Time Has Existed As Far As Mankind Is Concerned, Dating Back To The Greek Tragedies Or The Old Testament. And Violence Is A Form Of Conflict, So Whether That's Catharsis Or Whether That Has Some Socially Damaging Effect On Audiences - I Suppose That Would Just Depend.

Once A Man Has Some Money, Peace Begins To Sound Good To Him.

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.

I Am Not A Regret Type Person. I Don't Believe In Regrets. Lots Of Things You Would Do Differently If You'd Do It Again, But You Don't Do It Again, So You Don't Think About It. But That Goes For Life In General. You're Only Dealing With The Knowledge You Have At That Time.

[fbi] Philosophy Is "go Ahead And Make The Story You Want To Make, And Hopefully We'll Love It." So That's That.

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.

I Guess Any Movie Actor Can Become A Role Model For Audiences Out There Who Enjoy Him.

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.

Society Is At Odds With Itself.

When A Naked Man Is Chasing A Woman Through An Alley With A Butcher Knife And A Hard-on, I Figure He Isn't Out Collecting For The Red Cross.

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.

Every Story Has Its Demands.

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.

Learning Something New

Hillary Clinton Has Made A Lot Of Dough Out Of Being A Politician. I Gave Up Dough To Be A Politician. I'm Sure That Ronald Reagan Gave Up Dough To Be A Politician.

I Do Believe In Self-help.

I Think It Is More Important To Tell A Story Rather Than Follow Any Trend; That Is A Less Bold Way To Go. If You Do That [follow Trends] You Are Just Trying To Ride On The Coat Tails Of Someone Else's Success.

I Could Be The Driver - The Uber Guy Saying, "i Used To Be In Films Years Ago... ."

The Innocence Of Childhood Is Like The Innocence Of A Lot Of Animals.

I Do Believe If One Keeps Busy It's Very Good For A Person. In Fact, People Are Always Rushing Into Retirement And We Read In Europe That People There Are Talking About Their Retirement Age And Moving It To 67 Or Something. Well, Back When They Started Retirement Funds And Everything, The Average Age Was 70 Or 60, And Then All Of A Sudden Now It's 80, And So. [...] And So You Keep In Shape, You Keep Yourself Mentally In Shape. And If You Keep Yourself Mentally In Shape, Chances Are Physically It Will Follow Suit.

You Take The Work Seriously, You Don't Take Yourself Seriously. You Keep That Straight And You'll Do Well The Rest Of Your Life.

Rest Of Your Life

Secretly Everybody's Getting Tired Of Political Correctness, Kissing Up. That's The Kiss-ass Generation We're In Right Now. We're Really In A Pussy Generation. Everybody's Walking On Eggshells. We See People Accusing People Of Being Racist And All Kinds Of Stuff. When I Grew Up, Those Things Weren't Called Racist.

There Are Two Kinds Of People In This World. 'i' People And 'we' People. I've Always Tried To Be A 'we' Person.

I Believe In My Gut. Most People Intellectualize Their Instincts Away, But When You Feel Something, You Have To Go For It. A Fistful Of Dollars Was A Great Instinct For Me, Because Here I Was, A Guy Who's Doing Rawhide.

Scott Eastwood Always Came In And Did A Good Job. And He's Now Graduated To Better Roles, And The Chicks Are All Calling And Asking Where Scott Is. They Used To Ask Where I Was. Now They're Going, "what About Scott?"

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.

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.

Plagiarism Is Always The Biggest Thing In Hollywood.

The Story [for The Western Genre] Is Everything. Whether It's A Book Or A Screenplay, The Story Drives Everything. And If You Just Go Out And Try To Make One By Putting On Boots And Jumping On A Horse And Riding Off... If You Don't Have The Material, The Characters And The Things To Overcome And Conflicts That Give Life To Drama, You Don't Have It.

If You Approach A Film With The Feeling That You Are Going To Have Some Impact On Society Then You're Liable To Get Carried Away With Yourself. Alfred Hitchcock Once Told Me, When I Was Analyzing A Lot Of Things About His Pictures, "clint, You Must Remember, It's Only A Movie.

Having The Security Of Being In A Series Week In, Week Out Gives You Great Flexibility; You Can Experience With Yourself, Try A Different Scene Different Ways. If You Make A Mistake One Week, You Can Look At It And Say, 'well, I Won't Do That Again,' And You're Still On The Air Next Week.

My Old Drama Coach Used To Say, 'don't Just Do Something, Stand There.' Gary Cooper Wasn't Afraid To Do Nothing.

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. There Are Many Things You Can Go Back And Have Regrets About. I Don't Like Doing That. But By The Same Token I Do Agree That When You Get To A Certain Stage In Life, You Change. And You Should Change.

You Know I've Had People Come Up And Ask Me To Sign Their Guns. Sign My Name On Gun Handles And Holsters And Stuff. I've Done It Once Or Twice For Law Enforcement Officials, But When People Do That -- And There Have Been Quite A Few Of Them Lately -- I Always Tell Them No. I Don't Want To Do That. I Don't Want My Name On That And I Hope You Use This Gun, Whatever Its Purpose Is, I Hope It's Used Wisely.

I Just Don't Want To Copy The Current Trends Or Do Movies For Teenagers. I Want People To Get More Out Of Movies.

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".

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.

Respect Your Efforts, Respect Yourself. Self-respect Leads To Self-discipline. When You Have Both Firmly Under Your Belt, That's Real Power.

Keep Your Eyes On The Horizon And Your Nose To The Wind.

Directing Is More Like You're Being A Psychologist And You're Kind Of Analyzing The Situation And Evaluating Each Person For Their Idiosyncrasies.

If Anybody Asks Me What I Attribute The Longevity Of My Career To, Then I Say It's Because I Was Never Satisfied With Being A Cowboy In The Plains Of Spain And Later I Was Never Satisfied With Just Playing A Detective In San Francisco, And Constantly Just Pushing The Envelope.

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.

The Guys Who Won World War Ii And That Whole Generation Have Disappeared, And Now We Have A Bunch Of Teenage Twits.

There's Really No Way To Teach You How To Act, But There Is A Way To Teach You How To Teach Yourself To Act. That's Kind Of What It Is; Once You Learn The Little Tricks That Work For You, Pretty Soon You Find Yourself Doing That.

Finding Yourself

The Cruelty Of Nature Is You Have To Work Out Harder When You Get Older ... It Should Be The Other Way Around: Work Out Hard When You're A Kid You Should Be Able To Coast When You Get Older. But Unfortunately You Have To Do More To Stay In The Same Position.

Nobody, I Mean Nobody, Puts Ketchup On A Hot Dog.

What I Think The Mentor Gets Is The Great Satisfaction Of Helping Somebody Along, Helping Somebody Take Advantage Of An Opportunity That Maybe He Or She Did Not Have.

There's A Rebel Lying Deep In My Soul.

Overnight Stardom Can Be Harmful To Your Mental Health. Yeah. It Has Ruined A Lot Of People.

This Film Cost $31 Million. With That Kind Of Money I Could Have Invaded Some Country.

I've Done A Few Special Effects Movies In My Life, So I've Gotten That Out Of My System.

You Have To Go With Your Instincts. I Remember When I Was About To Make "fistful Of Dollars" A Big Article Came Out That Said, "italian Westerns Are Finished." I Said, "swell." Then, Of Course, The Film Came Out, And It Did Something. I'm So Glad For The Dozens Of Times I Haven't Listened Along The Way.

Historically, Actors Have Been Made Very Famous For Roles That Were Something That Was Far - - Richard Widmark Comes To Mind (playing Tommy Udo In "kiss Of Death") Or Something Like That, Where You Do Some Famous Role And Everybody Imitates You For The Rest Of Your Life. But Obviously It's Much More Fun To Play Something You're Not Than It Is To Play Something You Are.

Sometimes If You Want To See A Change For The Better, You Have To Take Things Into Your Own Hands.

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.

A Good Man Always Knows His Limitations.

Are You Going To Pull Those Pistols Or Whistle Dixie?

I'd Say, Go Ahead, Shoot Your Shot. More Power To Ya If You Can Come Up With A Different Angle On The Character.

I'm Interested In The Fact That The Less Secure A Man Is, The More Likely He Is To Have Extreme Prejudice.

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.

I Have A Very Strict Gun Control Policy: If There's A Gun Around, I Want To Be In Control Of It.

I Always Liked Characters That Were More Grounded In Reality.

If A Person Is Confident Enough In The Way They Feel, Whether It's An Art Form Or Whether It's Just In Life, It Comes Off---you Don't Have Anything To Prove; You Can Just Be Who You Are.

The Casting Is The Most Important Thing. If You Cast A Picture Really Well A Lot Of Things Take Care Of Themselves. You Get Actors That Like To Give A Lot To The Role And Who Appreciate The Role On The Same Level That You Do. If You Miscast It, You're Working An Uphill Battle A Little Bit And Maybe You Can Come Out Okay But You Can't Always Come Out Great.

There's A Saying That We Use In Golf: "i'd Rather Be Lucky Than Good." Of Course, To Be Lucky And Good Is The Ideal. If You Study Hard, You Can Get Good. And If You Get Lucky And Get The Proper Parts For People To Be Able To Appreciate What You're Doing ... I'm Sure There Are Many Actors That Are Quite Talented Who Have Never Been A Success Because They've Never Had The Right Opportunity And The Right Material. My Mother Used To Think I Had A Guardian Angel.

I Don't Look At My Life Too Much. I'm Always Looking Forward, Not Backward.

Looking Forward

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.

Opinions Are Like A**holes, Everybody Has One.

Well, If You're Waitin' For A Woman To Make Up Her Mind, You May Have A A Long Wait.

Actors Know What Actors Are Insecure About - And They're All Insecure.

An Awful Lot Of Good Movies Have Gone Unrecognized, And An Awful Lot Of Bad Movies Have Had Tremendous Recognition. As Long As You Keep That In Mind, You Are Never Really Disappointed.

Winning The Election Is A Good-news, Bad-news Kind Of Thing. Okay, Now You're The Mayor. The Bad News Is, Now You're The Mayor.

I Don't Know How Everybody Else Feels, But I Just Long For Reality Rather Than These Made-up Things.

We Don't Even Know Who's In The Academy.

You Have To Go With Your Instincts.

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.

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.

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.

First, I Blow A Hole In Your Face; Then I Go Back Inside, And Sleep Like A Baby... I Guarantee You.

There's Something About The First Time An Actor Runs The Material Over His Or Her Face You Know When They Kind Of Run It Through Their Eyes And You See The Thing And There Is Little Imperfections In It And Not Every Line Is Delivered Perfectly, And It Doesn't Have That Mechanical Feeling.

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.

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.

I Know What You're Thinking. Did He Fire Six Shots Or Only Five? Well, To Tell You The Truth, In All This Excitement, I've Kinda Lost Track Myself. But Being As This Is A .44 Magnum, The Most Powerful Handgun In The World, And Would Blow Your Head Clean Off, You've Got To Ask Yourself One Question: "do I Feel Lucky?" Well, Do Ya, Punk?

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.

A Lot Of People Are Bored Of All The Political Correctness.

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.

If You Want A Guarantee, Buy A Toaster.

I'm A Firm Believer In Research, But I'm Also A Firm Believer In Utilizing The Instincts That Are Within Your Soul Or In Your Body Or In Your Stomach, Wherever They Reside.

To Me, Life Is Like The Back Nine In Golf. Sometimes You Play Better On The Back Nine. You May Not Be Stronger, But Hopefully You're Wiser. And If You Keep Most Of Your Marbles Intact, You Can Add A Note Of Wisdom To The Coming Generation.

I Haven't Been Very Active In Politics.

Dyin' Ain't Much Of A Living, Boy.

I Love Every Aspect Of The Creation Of Motion Pictures And I Guess I Am Committed To It For Life.

Motion Pictures

I Became A Republican In 1951, The First Year I Could Vote.

Nobody Knows Diddly. They Just Think They Do. And The People That Think They Know The Most Know The Least.

People Have Lost Their Sense Of Humor. In Former Times, We Constantly Made Jokes About Different Races.

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.

I Like The Inspiration Of The First Take.

I Keep Working Because I Learn Something New All The Time.

Never Stop Learning

That's The Secret To A Movie Career - Just Keeping An Open Mind.

Everybody Thinks Making Films Back To Back Is A Big Deal But They Did It All The Time In The Old Days.

It Takes Tremendous Discipline To Control The Influence, The Power You Have Over Other People's Lives.

Influence And Power

Nowadays, Politically, Everybody Is Promising Everything. That's The Only Way You Can Get Elected.

I'm More Focused On Making A Scene Seem Real As Opposed To Perfect.

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?"

You Should Never Give Up Your Inner Self.

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.

Drama Usually Has Some Sort Of Intense Conflict.

You Have To Be Realistic About Where You Are In Life And Enjoy It.

Where You Are In Life

Scott's Eastwood Movie Snowden Sounds Fascinating. I Want To See It Because It's About Deserting Your Country ... For Whatever Reasons You Have. Edward Snowden Became Famous For The Wrong Reasons, As Captain Chesley "sully" Sullenberger Became Famous For Doing Something Spectacular.

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.

Improvise, Adapt And Overcome!

Aging Can Be Fun If You Lay Back And Enjoy It.

I Was Kind Of A Little Disappointed When They Started Building A Competition Between Marty (martin Scorsese) And Me. I Have The Greatest Respect For Him And All The Films He's Done Over The Years.

I Don't Watch A Lot Of Films. I'm Usually Involved In Making Them.

What Happened Is I Was Going To College In 1950. L. A. City College. A Guy I Knew Was Going To An Acting Class On Thursday Nights. He Started Telling Me About All The Good-lookin' Chicks And Said, "why Don't You Go With Me?" So I Probably Had Some Motivation Beyond Thoughts Of Being An Actor. And Sure Enough, He Was Right. There Were A Lot Of Girls And Not Many Guys. I Said, "yeah, They Need Me Here." I Wound Up At Universal As A Contract Player.

What Trump Is Onto Is, He's Just Saying What's On His Mind. And Sometimes It's Not So Good. And Sometimes It's... I Mean, I Can Understand Where He's Coming From, But I Don't Always Agree With It.

We Are Like Boxers, One Never Knows How Much Longer One Has

I Think Being Able To Age Gracefully Is A Very Important Talent. It Is Too Late For Me. The Horse Is Out Of The Barn... In Past Generations, People Would Try To Play Younger Than They Really Are. My Trick Is, I Don't Try To Play Younger Than I Really Am.

It's A Hell Of A Thing, Killing A Man. You Take Away All He's Got And All He's Ever Gonna Have.

Always Keep Your Ego In Check And Not Be Afraid To Listen. Listening Is A Great Art Form.

The Prospect Of Dating Someone In Her Twenties Becomes Less Appealing As You Get Older. At Some Point In Your Fife, Your Tolerance Level Goes Down And You Realize That, With Someone Much Younger, There's Nothing Really To Talk About.

I'd Have To Go For Donald Trump ... You Know, 'cause Hillary Clinton Is Declared That She's Gonna Follow In Barack Obama's Footsteps. There's Been Just Too Much Funny Business On Both Sides Of The Aisle. She's Made A Lot Of Dough Out Of Being A Politician.

I Had Three Points I Wanted To Make. That Not Everybody In Hollywood Is On The Left, That Obama Has Broken A Lot Of Promises He Made When He Took Office, And That The People Should Feel Free To Get Rid Of Any Politician Who's Not Doing A Good Job. But I Didn't Make Up My Mind Exactly What I Was Going To Say Until I Said It.

Take Your Work Seriously, But Don't Take Yourself Seriously

The Reason I Don't Retire Is That I Learn Something New Every Day. The Brain Has To Be Exercised The Same As The Rest Of The Body. It's About Expanding, Constantly Pushing Yourself.

I Don't Mind Telling A Dark Side.

Of Course We All Know Biden Is The Intellect Of The Democratic Party. Kind Of A Grin With A Body Behind It.

There's Nothing Like A Nice Piece Of Hickory.

Everybody Puts Importance In Money On A Film Set.

Westerns. A Period Gone By, The Pioneer, The Loner Operating By Himself, Without Benefit Of Society. It Usually Has Something To Do With Some Sort Of Vengeance; He Takes Care Of The Vengeance Himself, Doesn't Call The Police. Like Robin Hood. It's The Last Masculine Frontier. Romantic Myth. I Guess, Though It's Hard To Think About Anything Romantic Today. In A Western You Can Think, Jesus, There Was A Time When Man Was Alone, On Horseback, Out There Where Man Hasn't Spoiled The Land Yet.

Every Movie I Make Teaches Me Something. That's Why I Keep Making Them.

I Don't Have Any Great Pickup Lines. I Was Never An Extrovert, So I Always Had To Have Someone Meet Me Halfway. If She Was Interested, We'd Come Together, And If Not ... When I Became A Movie Actor And Became Well-known, It Took Care Of Itself. Maybe That's Why I Became An Actor.

I Just Kind Of Had My Own Impressions Growing Up With Hoover As A Heroic Figure In The 40s - Actually The 30s, 40s, And 50s And Beyond - But This Was All Prior To The Information Age So We Didn't Know About Hoover Except What Was Usually In The Papers, And This Was Fun, Because This Was A Chance To Go Into It [ During Filming 'j. Edgar Hoover' ]

Over My Career I Played Some Badass Characters. So, People Sometimes Think I Should Have A .44 Magnum. But That's Not True, I Don't Have That. But I Do Fire Them And I Do Enjoy Target Shooting And All That Sort Of Thing. I'm Not Much Of A Hunter. I Don't Like Killing Animals, But I Love To Shoot.

You Change As The Years Go By. The More Knowledge You Get, The More Things Change In Your Life And Circumstances Change.

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.

The Craving For Information Is So Huge Now, And It Can Be Marketed At Such A Rapid Rate.

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.

Do Ya' Feel Lucky, Punk?

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?

None Of The Pictures I Take A Risk In Cost A Lot, So It Doesn't Take Much For Them To Turn A Profit. We Don't Deal In Big Budgets. We Know What We Want And We Shoot It And We Don't Waste Anything. I Never Understand These Films That Cost Twenty, Thirty Million Dollars When They Could Be Made For Half That. Maybe It's Because No One Cares. We Care.

I Think The Only Way It Has Influenced Me Is To Cause Me To Try To Branch Out And Do Other Things. So That People Will Know That I Am Reaching Out And Trying To Be A Little More Versatile. So They Realize He Is Not A "dirty Harry." He Doesn't Advocate Martial Law Or Mayhem -it's A Character.

I Have A Small Child. Being A Parent Takes A Lot Of Time. People Always Ask Me, "what Movies Have You Watched Lately?" I Tell Them, "finding 'nemo' ... 'shrek'.

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