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.
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
If you think it's going to rain, it will.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
Men must know their limitations.
My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
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.
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
We boil at different degrees.
Clint was listed in the #4 position in the annual Harris Poll of America's top ten favourite movie stars in 2006.
Clint’s mother, Francesca Ruth Eastwood, died on 7 February 2006 at the age of ninety-seven.
In early 2005, Clint revealed that he would supply the voice for a Dirty Harry video game.
At the 2005 National Board of Review awards dinner in New York City, Clint joked that he would kill filmmaker Michael Moore if Moore ever showed up at his home with a camera (an evident reference to Moore's controversial interview with Clint’s friend, actor/Second Amendment advocate Charlton Heston, for the movie Bowling for Columbine (2002)). After the crowd laughed, Clint said, "I mean it." Moore's spokesman said, "Michael laughed along with everyone else, and took Mr Eastwood's comments in the light-hearted spirit in which they were given." Publicly, Clint has not commented further.
Clint’s "Fistful" mannerisms was imitated in Canada, by the Tim Horton's restaurant chain, to promote the 2005 Southwest chicken sub.
For two consecutive years, Clint directed two out of the four actors in performances that won them Oscars: Sean Penn (Best Actor for Mystic River (2003)) and Tim Robbins (Best Supporting Actor for Mystic River (2003)) in 2004, and Hilary Swank (Best Actress for Million Dollar Baby (2004)) and Morgan Freeman (Best Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby (2004)) in 2005.
Clint whistles on the track Big Noise from his son Kyle's jazz CD Paris Blue which was released in 2004.
At a press conference for his movie, Mystic River (2003), Clint condemned the Iraq war as a "big mistake" and defended Sean Penn's visit to Baghdad, saying he might have done the same thing but for his age.
Until his pride was displaced by discovery of a larger version of the same tree in 2002, Clint used to be the proud owner of the tree believed to be the nation's largest known hardwood - a blue gum eucalyptus.
At the 72nd Annual Academy Awards in 2000, Clint presented the Best Picture statuette for American Beauty (1999).
In 2000, Clint was the recipient of John F. Kennedy Center Honours.
In 1998, Clint received an honorary Cesar award in Paris, France for his body of work.
In the late 1990s, Clint referenced Play Misty for Me (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Bronco Billy (1980), Honkytonk Man (1982), Unforgiven (1992) & A Perfect World (1993) as the favourites of the films he had made.
Clint became President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994.
Clint appeared on T.G. Sheppard's hit single Make My Day, which reached #12 on ‘Billboard's Hot Country Singles’ chart in 1984 and also reached #62 on that magazine's ‘Hot 100 singles’ survey.
Clint is mentioned in the theme song of the 1980s TV hit The Fall Guy.
In 1972, Clint attended President Richard Nixon's landslide victory celebration in Los Angeles, along with John Wayne, Charlton Heston, and Glenn Ford.
When Don Siegel fell ill during production of Dirty Harry (1971), Clint stepped in as director during the attempted-suicide/jumper sequence.
Clint claims that he wound up getting the role in Sergio Leone's Per un pugno di dollari (1964) because James Coburn wanted $25,000. Clint accepted the role for $15,000.
Clint’s first screen appearance was an uncredited role in Revenge of the Creature (1955), as the goofy white coated lab assistant who does the silly mouse gag in the lab scene with the monkey. His only line in the film is: "I've lost my white mouse".
Family: Clint has eight children: Kimber Eastwood (born 17 June 1964), Kyle Eastwood (born 19 May 1968), Alison Eastwood (born 22 May 1972), Scott Eastwood (born 21 March 1986), Kathryn Eastwood (2 February 1988), Heather Eastwood (born 19 July 1988) , Francesca Fisher-Eastwood (born 7 August 1993) and Morgan Eastwood (born 12 December 1996). Clint’s granddaughter, Graylen (Kyle's daughter) was born in 1994.
Clint is a patron of the arts, notably as an avid collector of western art.
Clint is a partial owner of the Pebble Beach Golf Country Club in Monterey Peninsula, California. Every year the PGA tour plays at the golf club, for a celebrity golf tournament where celebrities team up with the professionals. Clint has participated in this every year from 1962-2002 and has been the longest running participant. He now serves as Host.
Clint was not nominated for an Academy Award, either as an actor or as a director, until he was sixty-two.
Clint has ruled out the possibility of playing Dirty Harry again, saying he has "outgrown him age-wise."
Clint has always disliked the reading of political and social agendas in his films, which has occurred from Dirty Harry to Million Dollar Baby. He has always maintained that all of his films are apolitical and what he has in mind when making a film is whether it's going to be entertaining and compelling.
Although Clint has been associated with it throughout his career, he personally detests violence and has carefully shown the horrific consequences of violence in his more recent films such as Unforgiven (1992) , A Perfect World (1993), Absolute Power (1997), Mystic River (2003), and Million Dollar Baby (2004).
Clint was scheduled to play the villain ‘Two-Face’ in an episode of the Batman series, but the show was cancelled before the project began.
When directing, Clint simply says "okay" instead of "action" and "cut".
Clint is of a mixed heritage that includes Dutch, Scottish, Irish and English blood.
Clint weighed 11 lbs 6 oz at birth.
Clint was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea in California.
When Clint was just starting out as an actor, he worked at digging swimming pools in between roles.
Clint is a vegetarian.
The lead characters Clint plays in his movies are often lonely outsiders, with a dark past they would prefer to forget.
The characters Clint plays always have a new trademark expression in each and every movie he does.
Some of Clint's favorite movies are, The 39 Steps (1935), Sergeant York (1941), The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), and Chariots of Fire (1981).
Clint took acting lessons in Hollywood. His teacher was Michael Chekhov.
Clint is good friends with Robert Donner.
Clint is 6'4 but because of back problems, he can now only stand up to 6'2.
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