Top 216 Quotes by Clint Eastwood

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.