Clinton Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and politician. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. These Clint Eastwood Quotes will motivate you in life.
Best Clint Eastwood Quotes
- “You, me…we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours…And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.” ~ 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
- “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 Quotes
- “Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Extremism is so easy. You’ve got your position, and that’s it. It doesn’t take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.” ~ Clint Eastwood
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“Nothing wrong with shooting…as long as the right people get shot.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome!” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot – both on the Right and the Left.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Secretly everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That’s the kiss-ass generation we’re in right now. We’re really in a pussy generation. Everybody’s walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.” ~ 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
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“Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Go ahead, make my day.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.” ~ Clint Eastwood
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“Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.” ~ 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
- “I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have messed with? That’s me.” ~ Clint Eastwood Quotes
- “These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don’t give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We’re making a big deal out of things we shouldn’t be making a deal out of. hey go on and on with all this bullshit about “sanctity”—don’t give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.” ~ Clint Eastwood
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“It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there’s free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I’ll kill you. I mean it.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “I’m a great supporter of transcendental meditation. I’ve been using it for almost 40 years now – and I think it’s a great tool for anyone to have, to be able to utilize as a tool for stress. Stress, of course, comes with almost every business. I think there are enough studies out there that show that TM is something that could benefit anybody. It’s a great system to use. Otherwise, why would I’ve been doing it for all these years, for almost half of my life?” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “It’s what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “A good man always knows his limitations.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.” ~ Clint Eastwood
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“I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “I haven’t killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who’s doing Rawhide.” ~ Clint Eastwood quotes
- “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 anymore.” ~ 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
- “What happened is I was going to college in 1950. L. A. City College. A guy I knew was going to an acting class on Thursday nights. He started telling me about all the good-lookin’ chicks and said, “Why don’t you go with me?” So I probably had some motivation beyond thoughts of being an actor. And sure enough, he was right. There were a lot of girls and not many guys. I said, “Yeah, they need me here.” I wound up at Universal as a contract player.” ~ Clint Eastwood
