If you’re looking for quotes by Clint Eastwood, this post’s for you, dear reader. I think Clint Eastwood has to be one of the coolest movie stars of all time, wouldn’t you agree?
He’s not only a movie star but also a noted filmmaker, musician, and political figure.
In a career of over 60 years, he’s given us so many memorable movies and numerous memorable lines from those movies. However, as a great influencer, he’s also made a few memorable quotes in his public life.
Here are 21 quotes by Clint Eastwood to prove my point.
Some quotes are by Clint as Clint, and some are by Clint playing the many memorable characters he played, such as Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry and, my personal favourite, Walt Kowalski in Gran Torino.
Whether they’re his quotes or those from the characters he’s played, they all give us a reason to reflect on life and the human condition.
So enjoy these 21 quotes by Clint Eastwood and see how many of them you can work into your day.
And for those quotes from his movies, how many of them can you match with the movies from which they came?
Quotes by Clint Eastwood (1-14):
- Men must know their limitations.
- Tomorrow is promised to no one.
- Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.
- If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
- There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.
- If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
- I tried being reasonable but I didn’t like it.
- What you put into life is what you get out of it.
- Take your work seriously but don’t take yourself seriously.
- They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
- Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
- I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
- Ever noticed how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have messed with? That’s me.
- Respect your efforts; respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt that’s real power.
Quotes by Clint Eastwood (15-21):
- I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.
- There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.
- Like most pictures that I’ve done, I’ve had no idea whether anyone would ever want to see ’em. But I figured I’d like to see it.
- If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it’s an art form or whether it’s just in life, it comes off. You don’t have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.
- 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.
- Maybe I’m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot – both on the Right and the Left.
- I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
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