Clint Eastwood Quotes

I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk.

I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

I've been acting for years. I always act surprised when Marco Rubio says something stupid.

One of the first roles I every played, I was Grandpa Vanderhoff in 'You Can't Take It With You.' Walked with a cane, white stuff in my hair. It must have been horrible. Thank God there's no videotape of it.

As an actor, the experience that I have as a politician while sitting in Parliament - that helps me enrich myself as an actor. But I am an actor first.

My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar!

People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

I have always been a director first and the whole acting thing just happened because none of my friends wanted to be in my videos, so I had to do it myself and wear a bunch of wigs.

I'll be 50 years old tomorrow and that means, among other things, that now Bob Dole can start telling jokes about me.

As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.