Quotes by Clint Eastwood

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

— Clint Eastwood

Success

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

— Clint Eastwood

Love

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

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

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

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

You should never give up your inner self.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

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.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

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.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

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

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

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

— Clint Eastwood

Life

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

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

Hope

Fate pulls you in different directions.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

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

Life

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

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.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

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.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

— Clint Eastwood

Success

Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

— Clint Eastwood

Wisdom