Clint Eastwood quotes

“If you think it's going to rain, it will. ”

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

“If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“Men must know their limitations. ”

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

“I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. ”

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

“I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject. ”

— 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

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

— 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

“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

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

— 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

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

— Clint Eastwood

“ President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him. ”

— 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

“We boil at different degrees. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“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. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote. ”

— 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 think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. ”

— 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

“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

“A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama. ”

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

“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