Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.
— Clint Eastwood
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.
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.
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
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.
Society is at odds with itself.
I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.
A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.
Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
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.
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.
I still work out on a daily basis.
I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast.
I don't mind telling a dark side.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.
People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.
I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
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.
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 think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
I do believe in self-help.
Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.
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.
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
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.
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Men must know their limitations.
Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.
I mean, 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 don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.
I was drafted during the Korean War.
When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
I keep working because I learn something new all the time.
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.
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
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.
Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.
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.
In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
