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" It's a very confusing era that we're in. "

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" In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over. "

" If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get. "

" I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy. "

" You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. "

" I don't mind telling a dark side. "

" I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him. "

" A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama. "

" Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure. "

" It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper. "

" I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela. "

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

" I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad. "

" Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them. "

" 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. "

" I do believe in self-help. "

" I was drafted during the Korean War. "

" 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. "

" Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it. "

" Fate pulls you in different directions. "

" Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree. "

" You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good. "

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