Clint Eastwood
1930-|
Biography
Born in San Francisco, California, USA Clint Eastwood Quotes
“A lot of actors who play Henry V can’t play my characters. They’d be ridiculous.”“Acting isn’t an intellectual art at all. Strictly animalistic - it comes out of the animal part of the brain.” “I do the kind of roles I’d like to see if I were still digging swimming pools and wanted to escape my problems.” “I’ve always had the ability to say to the audience: Watch this if you like, and if you don’t, take a hike.” “I’ve always thought of myself as a character actor rather than a leading man.” “I’ve played a lot of outcasts - people don’t believe in heroes.” “Universal signed me as a contract player - which is a little lower than working in the mail room.” “What I don’t like is long locations.” “You’ve got to donate yourself to the character. You can’t say: Jeeze, will I look as sharp as I have in some films?” “Except for the 16 weeks of basic training, I spent all my military career in the swimming pool at Ford Ord.” “There aren’t too many original American art forms - other than the Western and jazz or blues.” “Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is obscene. That’s the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this planet: a woman’s breasts. Why should that be considered obscene?” “Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.” “Every actor should direct at least once. It gives you a tolerance, an understanding of the problems involved in making a film. In fact, every director should act.” “In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.” “My old drama coach used to say, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.” “I don’t seem to have the gift it takes to enjoy fame the way it should be enjoyed.” “The 30s: my parents and my sister and myself just had to move around to get jobs. People were actually living in chicken houses.” “’Make my day’ came from the screenwriter Joe Stinson. Only thing I did, I reprised it at the end - that’s my contribution.” “Go ahead, make my day. ” “I hate long movies.” “Movies are fun, but they’re not a cure for cancer.” “Paint Your Wagon was not the smoothest running picture I’ve ever been on. I saw it in four different versions: the director’s, the producer’s, and two cut together by some executives. The director’s was the best and that wasn’t the one they released.” “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.” “There’s always been violence in cinema, theatre and literature. But it is society’s tolerance of violence that’s probably responsible for violent behaviour more than any motion picture or television show. The attitude, at least in America, seems to be: this isn’t bothering me, so why should I be bothered about it?” “This film cost 31 million dollars. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.” “Those Italians were jerks. They even called their films by titles like ours - A Dollar in the Teeth, can you believe it? And there was this Italian actor who called himself Clint Westwood. Westwood!” “You learn something from seeing a bad movie as much as you do from seeing a good movie.” “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.” “I hate imitation. I’ve a reverence for individuality. I got where I am by coming off the wall.” “It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.” “When you’re not interested in trying new things that’s when you should start hitting golf balls.” “There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.” “They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.” “Men must know their limitations.” “Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him. ” “I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, you have to forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.” “I’ve always considered myself too individualistic to be either right-wing or left-wing.” “I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.” “My idea of a religious experience would be standing on Half Dome looking down into Yosemite Valley.” “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” “Women tend to be smarter than men in a lot of areas. You see a lot of terribly intelligent men with dumb women but you never see terribly intelligent women with dumb guys.” “I enjoy Cannes. I come for the event, not prizes.” “I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.” “I squint because I can’t take too much light.” “I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.” “I’m not too thrilled with the idea of talking about myself.” “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.” “We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.” “We boil at different degrees.” |
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The Actor
Clint Eastwood has appeared in the following films:Revenge of the Creature (1955) Francis in the Navy (1955) Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955) Tarantula (1955) Never Say Goodbye (1956) Star in the Dust (1956) Away All Boats (1956) The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) Escapade in Japan (1957) Lafayette Escadrille (1958) Ambush at Cimarron Pass (1958) Per un pugno di dollari (1964) Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966) Le Streghe (1967) El Magnifico extranjero (1967) Hang ’Em High (1968) Coogan’s Bluff (1968) Where Eagles Dare (1968) Paint Your Wagon (1969) Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) Kelly’s Heroes (1970) The Beguiled (1971) Play Misty for Me (1971) Dirty Harry (1971) Joe Kidd (1972) High Plains Drifter (1973) Breezy (1973) Magnum Force (1973) Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) The Eiger Sanction (1975) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) The Enforcer (1976) The Gauntlet (1977) Every Which Way But Loose (1978) Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Bronco Billy (1980) Any Which Way You Can (1980) Firefox (1982) Honkytonk Man (1982) Sudden Impact (1983) Tightrope (1984) City Heat (1984) Pale Rider (1985) Heartbreak Ridge (1986) The Dead Pool (1988) Pink Cadillac (1989) White Hunter Black Heart (1990) The Rookie (1990) Unforgiven (1992) In the Line of Fire (1993) A Perfect World (1993) The Bridges of Madison County (1995) Absolute Power (1997) True Crime (1999) Space Cowboys (2000) Blood Work (2002) Million Dollar Baby (2004) Gran Torino (2008) The Film Director
Clint Eastwood directed the following films:Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) Changeling (2008) |
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