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" '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. "

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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. "

Clint Eastwood

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" I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote. "

" 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. "

Clint Eastwood

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Know

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

" I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world. "

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

" When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people. "

Clint Eastwood

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People

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

" I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again. "

" If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is. "

" In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. "

" I'm not a regrets-type person. "

Clint Eastwood

Person

" 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. "

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

Clint Eastwood

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" I just don't like killing creatures. "

Clint Eastwood

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Just

" I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up. "

" 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. "

" I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.' "

" What you put into life is what you get out of it. "

" I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself. "

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

" There has to be something in every role that interests you. "

" Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people. "