Quotes from Clint Eastwood

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.

If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

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.

The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

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.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.'

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

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

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks.

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.