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When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

Clint Eastwood

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Clint Eastwood
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 31
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You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.
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Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
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You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.
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It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.
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The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.
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I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.
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Every story has its demands.
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You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.
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I was drafted during the Korean War.
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I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.
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I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.
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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
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Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
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Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.
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When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
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It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
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I found out that a lot of my liberal friends weren't liberal because they weren't liberal about approaching anybody else's ideas, or at least standing for it. They started getting really animalistic about, I can't even associate with this guy. He's stupid. He's an idiot.
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Things always look different from higher up.
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Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.
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