Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

Funny

All Quotes by Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

Good

“People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.”

— Clint Eastwood

Love

“Men must know their limitations.”

— Clint Eastwood

Men

“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

“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

“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

“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'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.”

— Clint Eastwood

Best

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

— Clint Eastwood

Society

“I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.”

— Clint Eastwood

Good

“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 just think it is important that you realize , that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.”

— Clint Eastwood

Best

“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

“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

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

— Clint Eastwood

Change

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

— Clint Eastwood

Funny

“I still work out on a daily basis.”

— Clint Eastwood

Work

“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

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

— Clint Eastwood

Time

“It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.”

— Clint Eastwood

Power