Clint Eastwood Quotes Page 2

“I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.”

“I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said: Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?”

“I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.”

“I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.”

“I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested.”

“I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

“I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.”

“I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

“Improvise, adapt, overcome.”

“My father used to say to me, “Show them what you can do, and don’t worry about what you’re going to get. Say you’ll work for free and make yourself invaluable.”

“Nothing wrong with shooting – as long as the right people get shot.”

“Opinions are like *ssholes, everybody has one.”

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline, when you have both firmly under your belt that’s real power.”

“Seeking the truth is the greatest virtue and is what makes a drama interesting. I am not interested in telling stories perfumed with roses in which everything is going well.”

“Smaller details are less important. Let’s get on with the important stuff.”

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

“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.”

“There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.”

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

“Tomorrow is a promise to no one.”

“We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.”

“We own this country. It is not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.”

“What you put into life is what you get out of it.”

“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.”

“When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.”

“When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.”

“Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.”

“You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.”

“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.”

“You want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”