Clint Eastwood Sayings

A man’s got to know his limitations.

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 should be a law against trying to make a woman look ten years younger than she is – another five, okay, but ten, that’s going too far.

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

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

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

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

Everybody wonders why I’m still here and I tell ’em, I’m just unemployable.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

My old drama coach used to say, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’

I have a very simple approach in career: you work with the best people you can find, you learn from them, and you let them grow and then they should replace you.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

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

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.

I’m not politically savvy.

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.

When you stub your toe, it hurts for a minute, but then it’s over. Life is always changing, and there’s always something new to stub your toe on.

Ignorance breeds fear. They fear what they don’t understand, and they hate what they fear.

As people get older, they get less willing, but the artist’s job is to push the boundaries.

One man’s life touches so many others lives.

We boil at different degrees.

In this world, words are bullets. So be careful of the words you use.

Too many people today are looking for ‘Hollywood’ endings. They’re looking for the payoff without the work, without the effort. But it doesn’t happen that way.

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

Acting is the greatest form of art. It is something the artist and the audience can share together.

When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me.

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

What works in politics is to move slowly, with great caution, and always with clear intention.

Sometimes you have to go out on a limb, that’s where the fruit is.

Life is full of lonely moments, some of them painful, but it is also filled with moments that come up unexpectedly and make us happy.

I just think all the time, my mind is always going. When I’m running, I’m not thinking about the time. It’s always flowing, flowing, flowing.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one’s fear.

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

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Sometimes you have to go out on a limb, that’s where the fruit is.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

The more you can create simplicity and communicate simplicity, the best things get.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

Nobody, I mean, nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

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

What works in politics is to move slowly, with great caution, and always with clear intention.