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

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" I'm a day-to-day-type person. "

" Some people feel that the world owes them a living. "

" 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 don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. "

" I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. "

" 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. "

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" The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach. "

" I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet. "

" A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness. "

Political Correctness

" 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?' "

" If you think it's going to rain, it will. "

" 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 think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. "

" God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks. "

" I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them. "

" I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too. "

" The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate. "

" I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up. "

" 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. "

" 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 a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him. "

" My whole life has been one big improvisation. "

" It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals. "

" 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.' "

" Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power. "

" There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody. "