40 Quotes By Clint Eastwood


I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
Clint Eastwood on age

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.
Clint Eastwood on alone

I just think it is important that you realize , that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
Clint Eastwood on best

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.
Clint Eastwood on best

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
Clint Eastwood on best

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood on change

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.
Clint Eastwood on change

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.
Clint Eastwood on dating

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.
Clint Eastwood on death

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.
Clint Eastwood on fear

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
Clint Eastwood on funny

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
Clint Eastwood on good

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
Clint Eastwood on good

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.
Clint Eastwood on government

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
Clint Eastwood on great

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
Clint Eastwood on health

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
Clint Eastwood on love

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Clint Eastwood on marriage

Men must know their limitations.
Clint Eastwood on men

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
Clint Eastwood on men