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
As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.
Fate pulls you in different directions.
It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.
My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.
I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.
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.
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.
I have worked ever since I was 13.
Man becomes his most creative during war.
I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.
A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.
Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.
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.
Every story has its demands.
I haven't been very active in politics.
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.
I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.
I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.
Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.
There has to be something in every role that interests you.
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.
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.
I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.
My whole life has been one big improvisation.
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?'
My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.
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.
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.
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.
It's a very confusing era that we're in.
Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
I like working. That's when I'm feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.
Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum.
Some people feel that the world owes them a living.
I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.
I love stories about women.
If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.
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.
A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.
There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.
When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.
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.
I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
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.
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
