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The Main Thing Is To Do Each Project The Way You Want, And If They Find An Audience, That's Terrific. And If They Don't, There's Nothing You Can Do Anyway, So Don't Let It Concern You That Much. An Awful Lot Of Good Movies Have Done Badly And An Awful Lot Of Bad Movies Have Done Very Well. There Are No Real Rhymes Or Reasons For It. Sometimes The Stars Don't Always Align Right. But If You've Done The Best You Can, You Feel Pretty Good About It.

-Clint Eastwood

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Clint Eastwood

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The Main Thing Is To Do Each Project The Way You Want, And If They Find An Audience, That's Terrific. And If They Don't, There's Nothing You Can Do Anyway, So Don't Let It Concern You That Much. An Awful Lot Of Good Movies Have Done Badly And An Awful Lot Of Bad Movies Have Done Very Well. There Are No Real Rhymes Or Reasons For It. Sometimes The Stars Don't Always Align Right. But If You've Done The Best You Can, You Feel Pretty Good About It.

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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.

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

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

I'd Like To Be A Bigger And More Knowledgeable Person Ten Years From Now Than I Am Today. I Think That For All Of Us As We Grow Older, We Must Discipline Ourselves To Continue Expanding, Broadening, Learning, Keeping Our Minds Active And Open.

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I Was Drafted During The Korean War.

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.

Everybody Wants To Make Something They Think Is A Surefire Winner, Though Nobody Knows What A Surefire Winner Is, In My Opinion.

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

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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.

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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.

Do Ya' Feel Lucky, Punk?

They Say Marriages Are Made In Heaven. But So Is Thunder And Lightning.

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.

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I Pay Tribute To The Writing Always. The Writer Is A Creative Artist And The Director Is An Interpretive Artist And The Actors Are Interpretive. You Take Zero And Make It Into Something, That's Always Amazing To Me.

If You Can Make A Good Picture That Actually Has Some Substance, That's Doubly Good Nowadays 'cause Most Everybody Else Is Trying To Address How Many Cgi Plates We're Gonna Do, What Little Being Is Gonna Come In From Another Asteroid.

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.

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Every Man Has Got To Know His Limitations.

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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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Self-respect Leads To Self-discipline.

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

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

There's A Rebel Lying Deep In My Soul.

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.

These People Who Are Making A Big Deal Out Of Gay Marriage? I Don't Give A Fuck About Who Wants To Get Married To Anybody Else! Why Not?! We're Making A Big Deal Out Of Things We Shouldn't Be Making A Deal Out Of. Hey Go On And On With All This Bullshit About "sanctity"—don't Give Me That Sanctity Crap! Just Give Everybody The Chance To Have The Life They Want.

When You're Young, You're Very Reckless. Then You Get Conservative. Then You Get Reckless Again.

When I Used To Be A Contract Player In 1954 At Universal, I Wasn't Getting Good Roles. I Was Getting One-liners, And Then I'd Be Gone. But I'd Hang Around; I'd Watch Guys. And When I Had Days Off, Which Was Most Days, I'd Go Down And Watch Other Sets While They Were Shooting. Watch Joan Crawford Or Whomever. Just Watch How They Worked And How The Director Handled Them. I Didn't Know Anything About Making Movies, And There's A Lot To Learn.

Everybody's Got A Right To Be A Sucker ... Once.

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.

It's Hard To Tell What Will Stimulate Curiosity Nowadays Because Looking At Some Of The Things That Do Excite People, You Kind Of Go, "ohh, Ok. So This Hasn't A Chance." But We Made It Anyway. I Think If People See The Picture, They'll Find A Lot Of Parallels To Today, Ever Since 9/11 And Everything, That Kind Of Fear That's Going On In Disturbance Of The Country.

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.

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

I Guess A Great Movie Would Be One That Has The Most Great Moments In It.

You, Me...we Own This Country. Politicians Are Employees Of Ours....and When Somebody Does Not Do The Job, We Got To Let Them Go.

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

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

I Don't Wanna Need You Because I Can't Have You.

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

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

I Had One Well Known Director Who Kept Saying, "now Clint, This Is What ...." And I'd Say, "i Know. I Read The Script. I'm The One Who Cast You As The Director. Let Me Show You And You'll Correct Me If I'm Wrong."

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

You Have To Go With Your Instincts.

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

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?

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

Pay Attention To The Work You Want To Do And Everything'll Work Out Fine. If You're In It For The Ego, You Might Be Successful But At A Limited Level.

If You Cast A Film Incorrectly, Then You're Going To Be Fighting An Uphill Battle.

Everybody Puts Importance In Money On A Film Set.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Try To Stick To A Vegan Diet Heavy On Fruit And Vegetables.

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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.

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.

There's Only One Way To Have A Happy Marriage And As Soon As I Learn What It Is I'll Get Married Again.

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.

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

Everybody Is Looking For A Reason To Not To Take Responsibility For Their Own Actions In Hand.

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.

Hollywood, As Everyone Knows, Glamorizes Physical Courage. . . . If I Had To Define Courage Myself, I Wouldn't Say It's About Shooting People. I'd Say It's The Quality That Stimulates People, That Enables Them To Move Ahead And Look Beyond Themselves.

I'm Not A Chick-flick Enthusiast.

You Always Want To Quit While You Are Ahead. You Don't Want To Be Like A Fighter Who Stays Too Long In The Ring Until You're Not Performing At Your Best.

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.

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 Think As You Get Older, You Find You Can Play More Things Because You're Moving To A Different Category. You Play A Certain Thing As A Younger Man, Playing Action Roles Like I Did. Then I Moved Out, And I Kept Trying To Do Different Things All The Time.

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.

President Obama Is The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated On The American People.

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.

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.

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

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

When I Look Back On My Life, I Don't Have Regrets About What I Didn't Do. If I'd Become A Musician, It Could Have Ruined My Life.

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.

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.

If I'd Had Good Discipline, I Might Have Gone Into Music.

I Always Thought What An Interesting Idea Because Almost Everybody's Fascinated By The Perpetrator Of A Crime; Very Few People Study What Happens To People For The Rest Of Their Lives, And How It Affects Not Only That Particular Character But Other Characters Around Him As Well.

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.

Our Modern Society - Especially In The West, And Especially Now - Reveres Youth.

If You Think It's Going To Rain, It Will.

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.

One Day We Will Look Back And Realize That The Barack Obama Presidency Was The Biggest Fraud Ever Perpetrated On The American People.

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

Being Comfortable Is Over-rated.

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