110+ Clint Eastwood Quotes On Marriage, Guns And Iconic

Clint Eastwood is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. He rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of Spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He has since directed and starred in many critically and commercially successful films, including Unforgiven, Gran Torino, and Million Dollar Baby. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Clint Eastwood on marriage, life, guns.

Top 10 Clint Eastwood Quotes

1. I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
2. One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.
3. They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
4. Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
5. You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
6. A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
7. 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.
8. When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
9. If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
10. 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 left.

Clint Eastwood Image Quotes

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. — Clint Eastwood

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. — Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood Short Quotes

• Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously
• Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
• Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.
• Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.
• It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
• I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.
• I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
• Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
• Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.
• There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

Clint Eastwood Quotes About Life

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom. — Clint Eastwood

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it. — Clint Eastwood

If a person is constantly evolving, constantly reading new material and being exposed to new material and growing in life, then you're becoming, hopefully, a more intelligent and well-rounded individual. If you're not then something's wrong and you're sliding back in the other direction. — Clint Eastwood

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are. — Clint Eastwood

I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system. — Clint Eastwood

The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day. — Clint Eastwood

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward. — Clint Eastwood

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something. — Clint Eastwood

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. — Clint Eastwood

My whole life has been one big improvisation. — Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood Quotes About People

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. — Clint Eastwood

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness. — Clint Eastwood

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort. — Clint Eastwood

I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. 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. — Clint Eastwood

The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don't have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays. — Clint Eastwood

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while. — Clint Eastwood

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. — Clint Eastwood

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

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

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

Clint Eastwood Quotes About Person

Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies. — Clint Eastwood

I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open. — Clint Eastwood

The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself. — Clint Eastwood

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person. — Clint Eastwood

I'm not a regrets-type person. — Clint Eastwood

I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding. — Clint Eastwood

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

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him. — Clint Eastwood

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it. — Clint Eastwood

I'm a day-to-day-type person. — Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood Quotes About Actor

Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it. — Clint Eastwood

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him. — Clint Eastwood

The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid. — Clint Eastwood

I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me. — Clint Eastwood

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it. — Clint Eastwood

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure. — Clint Eastwood

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time. — Clint Eastwood

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through. — Clint Eastwood

I don't have any great pickup lines. I was never an extrovert, so I always had to have someone meet me halfway. If she was interested, we'd come together, and if not ... When I became a movie actor and became well-known, it took care of itself. Maybe that's why I became an actor. — Clint Eastwood

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise. — Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood Quotes About Play

If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope. — Clint Eastwood

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess. — Clint Eastwood

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am. — Clint Eastwood

I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time. — Clint Eastwood

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

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. — Clint Eastwood

I think as you get older, you find you can play more things because you're moving to a different category. You play a certain thing as a younger man, playing action roles like I did. Then I moved out, and I kept trying to do different things all the time. — Clint Eastwood

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No. — Clint Eastwood

I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant. — Clint Eastwood

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. — Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood Quotes About World

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

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

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. — Clint Eastwood

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

Some people feel that the world owes them a living. — Clint Eastwood

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world. — Clint Eastwood

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from. — Clint Eastwood

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?' — Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood Famous Quotes And Sayings

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. — Clint Eastwood

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. — Clint Eastwood

Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left. — Clint Eastwood

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours. — Clint Eastwood

You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go. — Clint Eastwood

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. — Clint Eastwood

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

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know. — Clint Eastwood

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

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. — Clint Eastwood

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. — Clint Eastwood

Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist. — Clint Eastwood

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

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed. — Clint Eastwood

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

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again. — Clint Eastwood

Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it. — Clint Eastwood

Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over. — Clint Eastwood

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it. — Clint Eastwood

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. — Clint Eastwood

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. — Clint Eastwood

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five? — Clint Eastwood

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection. — Clint Eastwood

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

I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products. — Clint Eastwood

There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards. — Clint Eastwood

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant. — Clint Eastwood

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them. — Clint Eastwood

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. — Clint Eastwood

You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools - and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are extremely valuable They work like a charm. I've used them all along and still do. — Clint Eastwood

Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing. — Clint Eastwood

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it? — Clint Eastwood

Go ahead, make my day. — Clint Eastwood

What Trump is onto is, he's just saying what's on his mind. And sometimes it's not so good. And sometimes it's... I mean, I can understand where he's coming from, but I don't always agree with it. — Clint Eastwood

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait. — Clint Eastwood

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

Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy. — Clint Eastwood

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. — Clint Eastwood

If you think it's going to rain, it will. — Clint Eastwood

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. — Clint Eastwood

I'd have to go for Donald Trump ... you know, 'cause Hillary Clinton is declared that she's gonna follow in Barack Obama's footsteps. There's been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle. She's made a lot of dough out of being a politician. — Clint Eastwood

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new. — Clint Eastwood

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

That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind. — Clint Eastwood

When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along. — Clint Eastwood

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it. — Clint Eastwood

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation. — Clint Eastwood

Every man has got to know his limitations. — Clint Eastwood

Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and I make the films I believe in. If the public follows me, that's wonderful. If it doesn't follow, "c'est la vie. — Clint Eastwood

I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside. — Clint Eastwood

I don't like showing the technique. I don't like people who say, "Here, I'm going to act, but first I have to bounce off this wall." If you have to bounce off the wall, do it by yourself. Don't feature the technique. My old drama coach used to say, "Don't just do something, stand there." Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. — Clint Eastwood

Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him. — Clint Eastwood

Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves. — Clint Eastwood

Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do. — Clint Eastwood

I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words. — Clint Eastwood

When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You’ve just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan says, it’s a pat on the back, so great you’ll take it and then move on. — Clint Eastwood

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least. — Clint Eastwood

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle. — Clint Eastwood

I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know. — Clint Eastwood

What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden. — Clint Eastwood

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

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races. — Clint Eastwood

Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so. — Clint Eastwood

I don't believe in pessimism. — Clint Eastwood

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

I keep working because I learn something new all the time. — Clint Eastwood

I don't mind telling a dark side. — Clint Eastwood

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate. — Clint Eastwood

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

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie? — Clint Eastwood

Life Lessons by Clint Eastwood

1. Clint Eastwood has taught us to be resilient and never give up on our dreams, no matter how hard the journey may be.
2. He has also shown us the importance of staying true to yourself and your beliefs, even when it's not popular.
3. Lastly, he has demonstrated the power of hard work and dedication to achieve success, no matter the odds.