Clint Eastwood

“I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.”

“There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.”

“Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.”

“I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.”

“I like a drama.”

“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.”

“There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.”

“I just don't like killing creatures.”

“I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.”

“I don't mind telling a dark side.”

“I love stories about women.”

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

“You should never give up your inner self.”

“It's always fun to talk about jazz.”

“I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.”

“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.”

“When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?”

“Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.”

“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.”

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