Quotes from Clint Eastwood

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

I do believe in self-help.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

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.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

I love big business!

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.

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

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

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

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I'd like to see somebody who's going in the office. In fact, I'd like to not see them because that way you'd be sure that they'd be working.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

A man's just gotta know his limits.

For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.

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.