Quotes from Clint Eastwood

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

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

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.

A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

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

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

Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

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.

As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.

What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.