Quotes by Clint Eastwood

"I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me."

"We boil at different degrees."

"I've had no problem harnessing anger."

"The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about."

"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."

"If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster."

"They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning."

"God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks."

"I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more."

"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."

"I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy."

"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."

"I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you."

"The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits."

"There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65."

"I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding."

"I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world."

"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."