Clint Eastwood Quotes - Page 11

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

I haven't been very active in politics.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.

I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film.

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.

I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

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

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?

That's why I don't rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I'd like to take the character, but we both end up going together.

You have to go with your instincts.

Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

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.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.

There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.

If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.

I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.

A lot of times people get to a certain age and they quit. I always felt sorry for the Frank Capras, the Billy Wilders, directors like that, because they quit in their sixties. Why would you quit? Think of the great work they could've done in their sixties, seventies, and on up.

A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime