Clint Eastwood

“I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.”

“The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.”

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.”

“Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.”

“I love big business!”

“Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.”

“Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.”

“I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.”

“When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.”

“The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.”

“We boil at different degrees.”

“A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.”

“We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.”

“I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.”

“I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't know, and I'll burst the bubble. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep...”

“I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, a...”

“I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who playe...”

“The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.”

“I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building u...”

“I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.”