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" The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. "

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" 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. "

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

" I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more. "

" If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music. "

" My whole life has been one big improvisation. "

" They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. "

" 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. "

" Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life. "

" I still work out on a daily basis. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. "

" I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time. "

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

" I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there. "

" 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. "

" 'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out. "

" 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. "

" My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble. "

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

" I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. "

" 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. "

" We boil at different degrees. "

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

" Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict. "

" I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. "

" Men must know their limitations. "

" 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. "