Quotes from Clint Eastwood

There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.

I still work out on a daily basis.

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

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.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

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.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

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.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

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.

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

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.

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