Quotes from Clint Eastwood

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

I don't mind telling a dark side.

I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

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.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.'

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

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

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.