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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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San Francisco County
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I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
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I'm just a kid. I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.
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There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation I have a reverence for individuality.
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In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.
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Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?
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I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.
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Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.
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Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.
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I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.
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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.
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I always like to try different things, different genres stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.
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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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If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.
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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.
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Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
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You have to go with your instincts. I remember when I was about to make Fistful of Dollars a big article came out that said, Italian Westerns are finished. I said, Swell. Then, of course, the film came out, and it did something. I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.
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If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.
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When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
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