The Best Clint Eastwood quotes

Do ya’ feel lucky, punk? — Clint Eastwood

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel. — Clint Eastwood

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel. — Clint Eastwood

If you save your breath, I feel like a man you can manage. — Clint Eastwood

Some people feel that the world owes them a living. — Clint Eastwood

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it’s an art form or whether it’s just in life, it comes off–––you don’t have anything to prove; you can just be who you are. — Clint Eastwood

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you. — Clint Eastwood

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger. — Clint Eastwood

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

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

I keep working because I learn something new all the time. — Clint Eastwood

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off. — Clint Eastwood

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. — Clint Eastwood

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. — Clint Eastwood

I’m a day–to–day–type person. — Clint Eastwood

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

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

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. — Clint Eastwood

I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves. — Clint Eastwood

Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much. — Clint Eastwood

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

My whole life has been one big improvisation. — Clint Eastwood

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18–year–old model all your life. — Clint Eastwood

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives. — Clint Eastwood

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? — Clint Eastwood

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer. — Clint Eastwood

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. — Clint Eastwood

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there. — Clint Eastwood

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them. — Clint Eastwood

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

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

Like most pictures that I’ve done, I’ve had no idea whether anyone would ever want to see ’em. But I figured, I’d like to see it. — Clint Eastwood

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‘Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.’ — Clint Eastwood

War pictures are always fascinating for people; they were for me growing up, even though I’m not nuts about war.’ ‘war is the ultimate conflict, and conflict is the basis of drama to begin with. — Clint Eastwood

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person. — Clint Eastwood

They say marriages are made in heaven. but so is thunder and lightning — Clint Eastwood

I don’t wanna need you because I can’t have you. — Clint Eastwood

You see, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend–those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig. — Clint Eastwood

It’s a hell of a thing; killin’ a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have. — Clint Eastwood

There’s sort of a postpartum thing that comes over you. — Clint Eastwood

I’m just a kid–I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet. — Clint Eastwood

Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it. — Clint Eastwood

Men must know their limitations. — Clint Eastwood

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. — Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries. — Clint Eastwood

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality. — Clint Eastwood

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. — Clint Eastwood

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?’ — Clint Eastwood