Clint Eastwood

"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."

"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 wont do that again, and youre still on the air next week."

"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."

"[...] secretly everybodys getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. Thats the kiss-ass generation were in right now. Were really in a pussy generation. Everybodys walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff."

"Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino play losers very well. But my audience like to be in there vicariously with a winner. That isnt always popular with critics. My characters have sensitivity and vulnerabilities, but theyre still winners. I dont 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. Its a compulsive philosophy with them. Winners tell themselves, Im as bright as the next person. I can do it. Nothing can stop me."

"The roles that Eastwood has played, and the films that he has directed, cannot be disentangled from the nature of the American culture of the last quarter century, its fantasies and its realities."

"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, doesnt call the police. Like Robin Hood. Its the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though its 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 hasnt spoiled the land yet."

"This is one politician who doesnt have ambitions to leave Carmel."

"I thought I might die. But then I thought, Other people have made it through these things before. I kept my eyes on the lights on shore and kept swimming."

"Ive actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns."

"With that kind of money, I could have invaded some country."

"I don’t know if I should present this award on behalf of all the cowboys shot in all the John Ford Westerns over the years"