Clint Eastwood citations

“Il est meilleur acteur que je ne le pensais avant de commencer le film. Et plus on tournait, plus je prenais plaisir à m'imaginer toutes les facettes qu'il pouvait encore révéler.”

“Eastwood a monté consciencieusement les marches du Palais; il était toujours aussi grand, mais sa dignité courbait le dos. La barre des attentes avait été fixée trop haut, mais il aurait dû obtenir une récompense pour le simple fait d'avoir fait briller son charme magnétique sur Cannes”

“Mr. Eastwood trouve qu'il est important de se demander à quel moment et dans quelle mesure l'Endowment devrait aider les groupes de musique dont les prestations ne sont pas satisfaisantes, et à quel moment cette aide devrait cesser. Il espère également qu'une attention particulière sera accordée au jazz et aux petits groupes qui ne peuvent pas récolter de fonds privés aussi facilement que d'autres types d'associations.”

“Clint Eastwood suggère que le temps accordé aux présentations, telles que celle qui a été faite au cours de cette séance par le Public Broadcasting Service, devrait être limité. La présidente et les autres membres du conseil sont d'accord.”

“Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.”

“Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!”

“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”

“I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

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

“Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

(Interview,, February 20, 2005)”

“Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino play losers very well. But my audience like to be in there vicariously with a winner. That isn't always popular with critics. My characters have sensitivity and vulnerabilities, but they're still winners. I don't pretend to understand losers. When I read a script about a loser I think of people in life who are losers and they seem to want it that way. It's a compulsive philosophy with them. Winners tell themselves, I'm as bright as the next person. I can do it. Nothing can stop me.”

“In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.”

“Tomorrow is promised to no one.”

“They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”

“There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.”

“I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it.”

“I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.”

“First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby… I guarantee you.”

“I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.”

“Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously”

“It's a hell of a thing; killin' a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.”

“I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?”

“Nothing wrong with shooting… as long as the right people get shot.”

“If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.”

“My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.”

“Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?”

“A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime”

“Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.”

“Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet.”

“I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be president, anyway. … I think it is maybe time -- what do you think -- for maybe a businessman. How about that? A stellar businessman.”

“Everybody wonders why I continue working at this stage. I keep working because there's always new stories. … And as long as people want me to tell them, I'll be there doing them.”

“Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.”

“I wanted to play it with an economy of words and create this whole feeling through attitude and movement. It was just the kind of character I had envisioned for a long time, keep to the mystery and allude to what happened in the past. It came about after the frustration of doing Rawhide for so long. I felt the less he said the stronger he became and the more he grew in the imagination of the audience.”