I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. -Clint Eastwood Age
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. -Clint Eastwood Great
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. -Clint Eastwood War
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. -Clint Eastwood Change
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
I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal. -Clint Eastwood Chance
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 Respect
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. -Clint Eastwood Dad
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
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 Fear
When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me. -Clint Eastwood Movies
My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble. -Clint Eastwood Dad
I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal. -Clint Eastwood Chance
If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures. -Clint Eastwood Music
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. -Clint Eastwood Dating
You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good. -Clint Eastwood Car
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. -Clint Eastwood Money
