Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

32 quotes

As an American actor and filmmaker (b. 1930), Clint Eastwood contributed not just to their field but to the broader conversation about what it means to live well. The range of their thinking — from Time to Society — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Browse 40 quotes by Clint Eastwood that cover ground from Time, Society, Best, Power, and Music. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "Society is at odds with itself."

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“You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.”

— Clint Eastwood

Best

All Quotes by Clint Eastwood

“I keep working because I learn something new all the time.”

— Clint Eastwood

Time

“Men must know their limitations.”

— Clint Eastwood

Men

“And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.”

— Clint Eastwood

Time

“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.”

— Clint Eastwood

Government

“I haven't been very active in politics.”

— Clint Eastwood

Politics

“You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.”

— Clint Eastwood

Best

“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.”

— Clint Eastwood

Nature

“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.”

— Clint Eastwood

Society

“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.”

— Clint Eastwood

Dating

“You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.”

— Clint Eastwood

Men

“This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.”

— Clint Eastwood

Money

“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.”

— Clint Eastwood

Death

“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

Marriage

“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

Alone

“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

Power

“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.”

— Clint Eastwood

Music

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

— Clint Eastwood

Change

“If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.”

— Clint Eastwood

Good

“Society is at odds with itself.”

— Clint Eastwood

Society

“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.”

— Clint Eastwood

Age