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.

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?

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.

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

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

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.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

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

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

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.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

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

I do believe in self-help.

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

We boil at different degrees.

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.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

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.