Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
What you put into life is what you get out of it.
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
If you think it's going to rain, it will.
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
We boil at different degrees.
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
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 think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
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.
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Men must know their limitations.
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.
Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
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.
Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'
You should never give up your inner self.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
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.
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.
You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.
On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.
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.
Fate pulls you in different directions.
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.
A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.
The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.
Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.
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'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.
When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.
