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You're As Young As You Feel. As Young As You Want To Be. There's An Old Saying I Heard From A Friend Of Mine. People Ask Him, "why Do You Look So Good At Your Age?" He'll Say, "because I Never Let The Old Man In." And There's Truth To That. It's In Your Mind, How Far You Let Him Come In.

-Clint Eastwood

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You're As Young As

Clint Eastwood

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You're As Young As You Feel. As Young As You Want To Be. There's An Old Saying I Heard From A Friend Of Mine. People Ask Him, "why Do You Look So Good At Your Age?" He'll Say, "because I Never Let The Old Man In." And There's Truth To That. It's In Your Mind, How Far You Let Him Come In.

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At Waco, Was There Really An Urgency To Get Those People Out Of The Compound At That Particular Time? Was The Press Going To Make It Look Heroic For The Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco, And Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, There Was One Guy In A Cabin At The Top Of The Mountain. Was It Necessary For Federal Agents To Go Up There And Shoot A 14-year-old In The Back And Shoot A Woman With A Child In Her Arms? What Kind Of Mentality Does That?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I Was A Kid, I Remember The First Batman, The First Superman Comic Books When They Came Out, Thinking How Great That Was And Wouldn't It Be Great To See A Movie Like That. They Did Some Cheap Serials, But They're Not The Same As Today. But I Think Younger Audiences Would Like To See A Real Hero Also.

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'm Anti - The Pussy Generation. Not To Be Confused With Pussy.

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' ]

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.

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.

A Love Like This Happens But Once In A Lifetime

Once In A Lifetime

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?

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.

When You're An Actor, You're So Busy: People Are Always Coming Up To You And Pulling Your Collar, Making Sure That Things Fit, Brushing Your Hair And You're Always Being Yanked Up, So Finally When You're Behind A Camera, You're Just A Slob.

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

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

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