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" A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future. "

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" I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it. "

" My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make. "

" I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested. "

" I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?' "

" I think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime. "

" As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success. "

" If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. "

" When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is. "

" I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair. "

" Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it. "

" Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving. "

" Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid. "

" In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess. "

" Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum. "

" I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go. "

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

" 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. "

" I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours. "

" I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No. "

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

" When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared. "

" Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.' "

" I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that. "

" When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it? "

" 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 just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet. "

" If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him. "

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

" I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel. "

" People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff. "