Quotes By Clint Eastwood

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.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

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

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.

I don't mind telling a dark side.

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.

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'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.

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.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

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

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

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

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

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.