41 Clint Eastwood Quotes

Clint Eastwood quotes

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

2. There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

3. Go ahead, make my day. (from Sudden Impact)

4. Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy.

5. Were you gonna die alone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

6. Your mouthwash ain't makin it!

7. God this stuff isn't getting to me - the shootings, the knifings, the beatings. Old ladies being bashed in the head for their social security checks. Nah that doesn't bother me. But you know what does bother me? You know what makes me really sick to my stomach? It's watching you stuff your face with those hotdogs! Nobody - I mean nobody puts ketchup on a hot dog!

8. Hey wait, you forgot your fortune cookie - it reads.. you're shit out of luck

9. I know what you're thinkin' punk, you're thinkin': 'Did he fire six shots, or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?

10. A man's gotta know his limitations.

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11. It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have.

12. it's what people know about themselves inside, that makes them afraid.

13. You gonna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?

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

15. I've got a firm policy on gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be the one controlling it. (from Pink Cadillac)

16. Such ingratitude after all the times I've saved your life. (from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly)

17. And if I was a half as ugly as you, Sergeant Major, I'd be a poster boy for a prophylactic. (as Gunnery Sgt. Tom 'Gunny' Highway in 'Heartbreak Ridge' - 1986)

18. I been pumping pussy since Christ was a corporal. I can tell you, the best damned poontang I ever paid for was in Da Nang. The girls were checked out daily. And we got ourself laid in a safe, orderly, proficient, military manner. That is until some suckhead writes home mama and says he dipped his wick in the Republic of South Vietnam. Then the shit hits the fan. A committee of congressmen, who asshole to asshole who couldn't make a beer fart in a whirlwind, start telling your basic-ass-in-the-grass, Marine 'No more shore time'. We responded in true Marine Corps fashion. We salute, do an about face, double time back to the boom-boom garbage dump where we get the clap, and the drip, and the crabs and a generally poor attitude towards the female of the species. War is hell, boy. That's a fact! (as Gunnery Sgt. Tom 'Gunny' Highway in 'Heartbreak Ridge' - 1986)

19. Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft is not a natural act. So let's do it right, enjoy the view. Come on. (as Gunnery Sgt. Tom 'Gunny' Highway in 'Heartbreak Ridge' - 1986)

20. I've lost my white mouse ('Revenge of the Creature', as the lab technician, his first line in a movie - 1955)

21. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. (as William 'Bill' Munny in 'Unforgiven' - 1992)

22. Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend. (as William 'Bill' Munny in 'Unforgiven' - 1992)

23. People come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.

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

2. I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

3. I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.

4. 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.

5. If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs.

6. The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn’t ordered to do.

7. I love stories about women.

8. My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

9. 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.

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

11. I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.'

12. My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.

13. They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

14. 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.

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

16. You thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean, you thought that was something worth doing. We didn't check with the Russians to see how they did there for the 10 years.

17. Im not going to shut up. Its my turn.

18. The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.