Clint Eastwood Quotes

Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.

You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools – and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are extremely valuable They work like a charm. I’ve used them all along and still do.

I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who’s doing Rawhide.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

I believe that everybody, whether you believe in the afterlife or the chance of a near-death experience and you come back and you see someone [on the other side] – whether that has happened or not, I don’t know, but certainly everyone has thought about it at some point or another in time. It’s a fantasy that if there is anything out there like that, it would be just terrific, but that remains to be seen.

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.

I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else’s success.

That’s one of the actor’s secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself.

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’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Everybody always feels that they’re right even if they’re wrong and that’s what a whole actor’s career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you’re playing.