1. I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them. 2. 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.
4. I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.
6. Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
7. We boil at different degrees.
8. Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.
10. Society is at odds with itself.
11. The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
13. 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.
15. I was drafted during the Korean War.
16. I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast.
17. Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
19. I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.
20. I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.
22. 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.
24. We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
25. Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
26. I do believe in self-help.
28. 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.
29. It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
31. Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
32. A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
34. I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
36. 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.
38. 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.
39. 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.
41. I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
42. The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.
44. If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
45. My father used to say to me: "Show 'em what you can do, and don't worry about what you're gonna get. Say you'll work for free and make yourself invaluable".
47. 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.
49. 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.
50. (to Eli Wallach prior to starting work on "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" - "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly") Never trust anyone on an Italian movie. I know about these things. Stay away from special effects and explosives.
52. I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
54. It's a very confusing era that we're in.
55. I don't mind telling a dark side.
56. (what he says after a take, instead of "Cut!") That's enough of that shit.
58. Right now, the state of the movies in America, there's an awful lot of people hanging on wires and floating across things and comic book characters and what have you. There seems to be a lot of big business in that, a nice return on some of those.
60. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.
62. Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
64. In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
65. I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
66. The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
67. There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
69. 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.
70. Men must know their limitations.
73. There's really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself to act. That's kind of what it is; once you learn the little tricks that work for you, pretty soon you find yourself doing that.
74. (on trying to get "Million Dollar Baby" made at Warner Bros.) They might have been a little more interested if I said I wanted to do "Dirty Harry 9" or something.
76. Whatever success I've had is due to a lot of instinct and a little luck.
77. (on former President Ronald Reagan) Yes, I liked him very much. When he was a former president of the Screen Actors Guild, I don't think he had the vast support that a lot of other presidents have had. So I don't know why that is, it's just the nature of things.
79. I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn't. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.
80. I always cry when I watch myself on screen.
83. 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.
86. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
87. Every story has its demands.
88. (on directing Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover) He could make a lot of money making mechanical genre pictures but he wants to be challenged. And it's much more of a challenge to play someone who doesn't have the slightest thing in common with you.
90. (on Angelina Jolie) She's wonderful. To me, she's like a throwback to the women in film of the Forties. Not to say women today aren't great, but back then there was more individuality. They didn't have the same Botox look. Angelina has that great individuality, her own look and her own style. I think she would have been just as big a name in that era, the same as Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis and Ingrid Bergman.
92. Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
93. (on "Million Dollar Baby") It's a tragedy that could have been written by the Greeks or Shakespeare.
95. My old drama coach used to say: "Don't just do something, stand there." Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
96. I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
98. I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
99. I haven't been very active in politics.
100. 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.
102. 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.
103. You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.
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