Clint Eastwood

“Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.”

“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.”

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

“On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.”

“I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.”

“When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.”

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

“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?'”

“I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.”

“At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.”

“I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.”

“The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.”

“Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.”

“When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.”

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

“I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.”

“Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.”

“The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.”

“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.”

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