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When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.
- Clint Eastwood
#Doubt
#Never
#Ray
#Voice
#Whose
I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.
- Clint Eastwood
#Knew
#Loved
#Wilder
#Work
#Would
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
- Clint Eastwood
#Everybody
#Everything
#Get
#Only
#Way
Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully.
- Clint Eastwood
#Eat
#Fats
#Just
#Lot
#Try
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
- Clint Eastwood
#Back
#Country
#Long Way
#Long
#Way
It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.
- Clint Eastwood
#Animals
#Because
#Like
#Me
#Must
Society is at odds with itself.
- Clint Eastwood
#Itself
#Odds
#Society
Man becomes his most creative during war.
- Clint Eastwood
#Creative
#His
#Man
#Most
#War
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.
- Clint Eastwood
#Bad
#Election
#News
#Okay
#Winning
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.
- Clint Eastwood
#Dumb
#Enough
#Go
#Me
#Political
It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.
- Clint Eastwood
#Character
#Fun
#Hide
#Nothing
#Yourself
I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.
- Clint Eastwood
#Guess
#Living
#More
#Past
#Present
I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.'
- Clint Eastwood
#Back
#Day
#I Can
#Stay
#Trying
If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
- Clint Eastwood
#Discipline
#Gone
#Good
#Might
#Music
I think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime.
- Clint Eastwood
#About
#Been
#Lifetime
#Something
#Think
I haven't been very active in politics.
- Clint Eastwood
#Active
#Been
#Politics
#Very
I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.
- Clint Eastwood
#Age
#Feel
#I Think
#Made
#Think
Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.
- Clint Eastwood
#Know
#Own
#Picture
#Too Much
#Way
I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.
- Clint Eastwood
#Actor
#Character
#Man
#Myself
#Never
I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.
- Clint Eastwood
#Affiliated
#Am
#I Am
#Mr
#Politically
I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.
- Clint Eastwood
#Character
#Director
#Great
#Once
#Work
You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through.
- Clint Eastwood
#Actor
#Find
#Late
#Never
#Problems
'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.
- Clint Eastwood
#Example
#Great
#Right
#Stuck
#Ten Years
I love big business!
- Clint Eastwood
#Big Business
#Big
#Business
#Love
Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.
- Clint Eastwood
#Better
#Country
#Job
#Know
#Needs
I just don't like killing creatures.
- Clint Eastwood
#Creatures
#Just
#Like
I was drafted during the Korean War.
- Clint Eastwood
#Drafted
#Korean War
#Korean
#War
In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.'
- Clint Eastwood
#Ahead
#Care
#Seeing
#Time
#Why
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.
- Clint Eastwood
#Director
#Film
#Lot
#Mentality
#Steal
I like a drama.
- Clint Eastwood
#Drama
#Like
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.
- Clint Eastwood
#Big
#Dad
#First
#War
#World
Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.
- Clint Eastwood
#He
#Heart
#His
#Patriot
#Power
A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
- Clint Eastwood
#Eyes
#Over
#People
#Realizing
#Wool
Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.
- Clint Eastwood
#About
#Cliff
#People
#Side
#Worry
It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
- Clint Eastwood
#Always
#Character
#Drama
#Overcome
#Well
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.
- Clint Eastwood
#Ahead
#Best
#Fighter
#Long
#Quit
It's always fun to talk about jazz.
- Clint Eastwood
#About
#Always
#Fun
#Jazz
#Talk
Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.
- Clint Eastwood
#Business
#Educated
#Great
#Know
#Law
I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.
- Clint Eastwood
#Because
#He
#Republican
#Us
#War
Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.
- Clint Eastwood
#About
#Insecure
#Know
The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
- Clint Eastwood
#Korean War
#Military
#Two
#War
#World
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.
- Clint Eastwood
#Everything
#Listening
#Mother
#Music
It's a very confusing era that we're in.
- Clint Eastwood
#Confusing
#Era
#Very
If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.
- Clint Eastwood
#Doing
#Mind
#People
#Person
#Reality
I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.
- Clint Eastwood
#Beach
#Place
#Planet
#Think
#Unique
I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.
- Clint Eastwood
#Believe
#Business
#Energy
#World
I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.
- Clint Eastwood
#Stick
#Think
#Time
#Up
#Will
I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.
- Clint Eastwood
#Average
#Feelings
#Guy
#Maker
#Same
Some people feel that the world owes them a living.
- Clint Eastwood
#Feel
#Living
#People
#Some People
#World
The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.
- Clint Eastwood
#Craving
#Huge
#Information
#Now
#Rate
I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.
- Clint Eastwood
#Bad
#Childhood
#Doing
#Eating
#Wait
In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
- Clint Eastwood
#Could
#Go
#Hear
#Journey
#School
I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.
- Clint Eastwood
#Fact
#Loved
#Same
#Thought
#Wife
I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.
- Clint Eastwood
#Book
#Jazz
#King
#Time
#Way
I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast.
- Clint Eastwood
#Enthusiast
I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.
- Clint Eastwood
#Chance
#Ever
#Guilty
#Never
#Not Guilty
The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.
- Clint Eastwood
#Beach
#Black
#Only
#Small
#Unit
I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
- Clint Eastwood
#Advantage
#Along
#Breaks
#Few
#Them
I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
- Clint Eastwood
#Best
#Important
#Job
#Republican
#World
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.
- Clint Eastwood
#Know
#Never
#Special
#Story
#Values
I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.
- Clint Eastwood
#Aspect
#Characters
#Played
#Villain
I do believe in self-help.
- Clint Eastwood
#Believe
#Self-Help
I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.
- Clint Eastwood
#Actor
#Advantage
#Always
#Camera
#Said
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.
- Clint Eastwood
#Always
#Bad
#Fall
#Nice
#Somebody
I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.
- Clint Eastwood
#Found
#Interesting
#Things
#Years Ago
I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.
- Clint Eastwood
#Guy
#Hollywood
#Just
#Like
#Person
I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.
- Clint Eastwood
#Express
#Film
#Kind
#Make
#Myself
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.
- Clint Eastwood
#Born
#Father
#Find
#Great
#Work
There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
- Clint Eastwood
#Down
#Me
#Promises
#Talk
#Why
I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.
- Clint Eastwood
#Age
#Always
#Thing
#Tried
#Vulnerability
I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.
- Clint Eastwood
#Great
#Life
#Like
#Movies
#Rome
My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.
- Clint Eastwood
#Believe
#Conservative
#Dad
#He
#Trouble
The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.
- Clint Eastwood
#Beautiful
#Consequences
#Violence
#Well
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
- Clint Eastwood
#Back
#Big
#Days
#Old Days
#Time
There has to be something in every role that interests you.
- Clint Eastwood
#Every
#Interests
#Role
#Something
#You
I still work out on a daily basis.
- Clint Eastwood
#Basis
#Daily
#Out
#Still
#Work
In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.
- Clint Eastwood
#Listening
#Looking
#Mind
#Radio
#Rest
I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.
- Clint Eastwood
#Dream
#Hate
#Home
#Lose
#See
When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.
- Clint Eastwood
#Air
#Just
#Kid
#Movies
#Thought
You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.
- Clint Eastwood
#Great
#More
#Power
#Somebody
#Something
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.
- Clint Eastwood
#Actor
#Back
#Film
#Stage
#Theatre
I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.
- Clint Eastwood
#Believe
#People
#Relatively
#Tend
Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
- Clint Eastwood
#Believe
#Life
#Look
#Society
#Us
Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?
- Clint Eastwood
#Advantage
#Like
#Nobody
#Well
#Why
As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it.
- Clint Eastwood
#Doing
#End
#Genre
#Love
#Steam
Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.
- Clint Eastwood
#Fast
#Keep Moving
#Me
#Moving
#Picture
Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.
- Clint Eastwood
#Bag
#Doing
#Know
#Me
#Right
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.
- Clint Eastwood
#Crazy
#Know
#Never
#Speech
#Thinking
I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
- Clint Eastwood
#Always
#Grounded
#Liked
#More
#Reality
My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.
- Clint Eastwood
#Always
#Ask
#Me
#Mother
#People
Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.
- Clint Eastwood
#Conflict
#Drama
#Intense
#Some
#Sort
When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.
- Clint Eastwood
#Bird
#Black
#Like
#People
#Picture
Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.
- Clint Eastwood
#Dog
#Done
#Life
#Things
#Wish
I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen.
- Clint Eastwood
#Afraid
#Bad
#Look
#Screen
I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.
- Clint Eastwood
#Always
#Capital
#Innocence
#Stealing
It would be great to be 105 and still making films.
- Clint Eastwood
#Films
#Great
#Making
#Still
#Would
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.
- Clint Eastwood
#Call
#Connection
#Line
#Phone
#Up
I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.
- Clint Eastwood
#I Think
#Learn
#Our
#Politicians
#Think
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.
- Clint Eastwood
#Past
#People
#Play
#Try
#Younger
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
- Clint Eastwood
#Actor
#Enjoy
#Guess
#Role Model
#Role
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