Top 26 Clint Eastwood Quotes



They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

 

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

 

I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.

 

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby… I guarantee you.

 

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

 

Extremism is so easy. You’ve got your position, and that’s it. It doesn’t take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the

 

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.

 

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

 

Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.

 

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

 

If something doesn’t come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.

 

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

 

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

 

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.

 

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

 

I never sympathise with the accused unless there’s a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don’t ever sympathise with the criminal.

 

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

 

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

 

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

 

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

 

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn’t believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

 

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

 

 

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