Clint Eastwood

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

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it. ”

Fate pulls you in different directions. ”

We boil at different degrees. ”

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. ”

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. ”

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. ”

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. ”

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 think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime. ”