613 Quotes by Clint Eastwood

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.

As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Like most pictures that I’ve done, I’ve had no idea whether anyone would ever want to see ’em. But I figured, I’d like to see it.

We don’t even know who’s in the Academy.

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.

It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.

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’m trying to preach the idea that if we don’t pay attention to history we’re destined to repeat it.

If you’ve done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it’s yours. And if people don’t like it, then they just don’t agree with you on that subject matter, and that’s life.