Actor and director Clinton Eastwood Jr. was born in America on May 31, 1930. The “Man with No Name” in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy” of spaghetti westerns during the middle of the 1960s and antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry movies during the 1970s and 1980s propelled him to international fame after finding success in the Western TV series Rawhide. Eastwood has become a perennial cultural icon of masculinity in part because of these roles and others. Eastwood was elected to be the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, in 1986 and held the position for two years.
43 Clint Eastwood Quotes
- “What you put into life is what you get out of it.”
2. “Tomorrow is promised to no one.”
3. “They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
4. “Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.”
5. “It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.”
6. “If I was not a dreamer, I would have achieved nothing.”
7. “I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”
8. “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.”
9. “There has to be something in every role that interests you.”
10. “Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.”
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11. “No man can walk away from his own story”
12. “Man becomes his most creative during war.”
13. “I tried being reasonable, but I didn’t like it.”
14. “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”
15. “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.”
16. “Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!”
17. “Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously”
18. “A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime.”
19. “You should never give up your inner self.”
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20. “I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.”
21. “It would be great to be 105 and still making films.”
22. “I don’t wanna need you because I can’t have you.”
23. “You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.”
24. “I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.”
25. “I tried being reasonable, but I didn’t like it.”
26. “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”
27. “Like most pictures that I’ve done, I’ve had no idea whether anyone would ever want to see ’em. But I figured, I’d like to see it.”
28. “Nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot.”
29. “If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.”
30. “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.”
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31. “Some people feel that the world owes them a living.”
32. “Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.”
33. “Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.”
34. “I know what you’re thinking ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?”
35. “I keep working because I learn something new all the time.”
36. “I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.”
37. “Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.”
38. “I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”
39. “This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.”
40. “When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.”
41. “It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.”
42. “I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.”
43. “As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.”
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