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Clint Eastwood Quotes about Character

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I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

Clint Eastwood
Character, Reality, Grounded
"Clint Eastwood as Superman or James Bond? ‘It could have happened,’ he says" by Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. September 7, 2010.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

Clint Eastwood
Character, People, Design
Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

Clint Eastwood
Character, Thinking, Practice
"Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot.

Clint Eastwood
Badass, Character, Thinking
"'American Sniper' director Clint Eastwood says the movie is anti-war". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.businessinsider.com. Interview with Stephen Galloway.

I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to people for the rest of their lives, and how it affects not only that particular character but other characters around him as well.

Clint Eastwood
Character, Ideas, People
Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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.

Clint Eastwood
Fun, Character, Play

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.

Clint Eastwood
Movie, Character, Special

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.

Clint Eastwood
Character, Ideas, Together
"Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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.

Clint Eastwood
Character, Careers, Actors
"Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". www.moviesonline.ca.

You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.

Clint Eastwood
Real, Character, Creating
Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.

Clint Eastwood
Character, Challenges, Trying
"Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

I think the only way it has influenced me is to cause me to try to branch out and do other things. So that people will know that I am reaching out and trying to be a little more versatile. So they realize he is not a "Dirty Harry." He doesn't advocate martial law or mayhem -it's a character.

Clint Eastwood
Dirty, Character, Thinking
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.

Clint Eastwood
Character, J Edgar Hoover, Hoover
"Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J. Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the character.

Clint Eastwood
Character, Different, Angle
"Eastwood and Hanks talk 'Sully,' their film about the ‘humble, smiling hero’ who landed on the Hudson River". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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