Quotes from Clint Eastwood

My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

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.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.

I just don't like killing creatures.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

It's not about you. It's about them.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

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.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it.

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

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

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

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

Every story has its demands.

We boil at different degrees.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

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