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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.

-Clint Eastwood

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Clint Eastwood

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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.

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

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.

Just Trust Your Instincts. There's An Old Saying In Golf, You've Studied The Swing Many Times, And You Practice And Practice, But When You Stand Over The Ball, You Just Have To Trust Your Swing. And You Trust It. And If You Don't Trust It, You'll Ruin It; Your Brain Will Take Over.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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

My Father Died Very Suddenly At Sixty-three. Just Dropped Dead. For A Long Time Afterward, I'd Ask Myself, Why Didn't I Ask Him To Play Golf More? Why Didn't I Spend More Time With Him? But When You're Off Trying To Get The Brass Ring, You Forget And Overlook Those Little Things. It Gives You A Certain Amount Of Regret Later On, But There's Nothing You Can Do About It. So You Just Forge On.

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!

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

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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.

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

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.

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

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If A Person Doesn't Change, There's Something Really Wrong With Him.

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Once In A Lifetime

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If You Feel Like You've Got Something To Offer You Should Do It While The Iron's Hot.

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A Talented Executive Would Be Somebody Who Knows How To Surround Themselves With A Lot Of People That Will Make Him Look Good. You Could Say That About A Politician Or You Could Say That About A Head Of A Major Corporation Or What Have You. The People You Surround Yourself With It's Very Important.

I Don't Like Showing The Technique. I Don't Like People Who Say, "here, I'm Going To Act, But First I Have To Bounce Off This Wall." If You Have To Bounce Off The Wall, Do It By Yourself. Don't Feature The Technique. My Old Drama Coach Used To Say, "don't Just Do Something, Stand There." Gary Cooper Wasn't Afraid To Do Nothing.

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Are You Going To Pull Those Pistols Or Whistle Dixie?

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

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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."

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Hollywood Seems To Succumb To Fads. Well, Action Films Do Well. Give Me Violence. Give Me A Scene Where There's A Couple Of Car Chases Or Shooting And Stuff Like That. They're Forgetting The Fact That There's A Basic Structure To A Story That Is Essential To Making It Really Broad And Appealing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

Let's Take The Work Seriously, And Not Ourselves Seriously.

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

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.

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."

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

If You Want A Guarantee, Buy A Toaster.

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.

The More Time You Have To Think Things Through, The More You Have To Screw It Up.

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.

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.

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?"

Things Always Look Different From Higher Up.

A Lot Of People When They Retire, They Just Expire. It Happens To Men More Than Women. Women Usually Have Great Interest In The Family, Because The Family's Always Growing And They're Always Coming To The Rescue.

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.

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

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.

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

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

There's A Rebel Lying Deep In My Soul. Anytime Anybody Tells Me The Trend Is Such And Such, I Go The Opposite Direction. I Hate The Idea Of Trends. I Hate Imitation; I Have A Reverence For Individuality.

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' ]

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

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.

Plagiarism Is Always The Biggest Thing In Hollywood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stage Actors Are Usually Much More Conscious Of Speaking Up And Making Sure That Everyone Can Hear In The Back Of The Theatre; A Film Actor Probably Thinks Of That A Little Less. Unfortunately, There's A Style Of Acting Going Round, Especially With The Younger Actors, Where They Talk Without Even Moving Their Lip. Maybe It's Because My Hearing Probably Isn't What It Was 40 Years Ago But I'm Sitting There Going "what Did They Say"?

Let's Not Go And Ruin It By Thinking Too Much.

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

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'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.

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.

Knowledgeable Person

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Funny Inspirational

Vegetarian Diet

I'm So Glad For The Dozens Of Times I Haven't Listened Along The Way.

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

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.

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

If You Don't Pay Attention To History, You're Destined To Repeat It.

I've Always Told My Son Scott The Same Thing: Don't Rush Into Anything, Because There's Gonna Be A Lot Of Fish In The Sea. You Can Be One Of The People That's Lucky Enough Not To Become A Loser Two And Three And Four Times Over Like People Do, Just By Being A Little More Patient.

You Have To Feel Confident. If You Don't, Then You're Going To Be Hesitant And Defensive, And There'll Be A Lot Of Things Working Against You.

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

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.

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.

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

The Thing That Haunts A Man The Most Is What He Isn't Ordered To Do.

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.

I Always Like To Try Different Things, Different Genres; Stories That Have A Dramatic Element And Can Generate Conflict Which I Find Appealing; Where The Characters Have To Overcome Obstacles. That Kind Of Thing Is Challenging.

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.

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

Improvise, Adapt And Overcome!

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

Looking Forward

There's A Rebel Lying Deep In My Soul.

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.

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.

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.

Most People Are Afraid Of Change, But If You Look At It As Something You Can Always Count On, Then It Can Be A Comfort.

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 Don't Believe In Pessimism.

Do Ya' Feel Lucky, Punk?

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

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.

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

I Don't Believe In Pessimism. If Something Doesn't Come Up The Way You Want, Forge Ahead. If You Think It's Going To Rain, It Will.

Famous Inspirational

With People In High Office, The Old - You Go Into The Extreme, Which Is Absolute Power And Absolute Power Corrupts.

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 Was Forty The First Time I Directed. I Formed A Company In 1967, Looking To The Future. My Dad Taught Me That Whatever You Do, Do It Well. Be The Best At What You Can Do For That Particular Job In Life. That Always Resonated With Me.

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.

My Wife Is My Closest Friend. Sure, I'm Attracted To Her In Every Way Possible, But That's Not The Answer. Because I've Been Attracted To Other People, And I Couldn't Stand 'em After A While.

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.

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.

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.

Men Must Know Their Limitations.

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'm Just A Kid. I've Got A Lot Of Stuff To Do Yet.

Buzzards Got To Eat, Same As The Worms.

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 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.

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.

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.

If You're Afraid To Take Risks In Anything In Life, It's Just Boredom.

Anything In Life

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

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

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

Acting Is An Animal Thing, Not An Intellectual Thing.

I Still Work Out On A Daily Basis.

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.

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.

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.

You Should Just Evaluate The Work And Make Your Judgments Accordingly. That's The Way You Do It In Life And Every Other Subject.

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

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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.

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