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" Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. "
Clint Eastwood
Hollywood
Plagiarism
Always
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" I do believe in self-help. "
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" I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't know, and I'll burst the bubble. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep a little bit of the animal alive. "
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" Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them. "
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" It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character. "
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" 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. "
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" As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to. "
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" They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks. "
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" Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. "
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" 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. "
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" You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. "
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" My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level. "
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" 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. "
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" I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age. "
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" The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach. "
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" 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. "
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" I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself. "
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" 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. "
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" If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him. "
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" The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men. "
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" You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know. "
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" My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. "
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" Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. "
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" Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically? "
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" 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. "
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