Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr.is an American actor, film director, producer, musician, and political figure. He rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth31 May 1930
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Clint Eastwood quotes about
I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'
I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.
Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!
Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.
Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously
I don't believe in pessimism.
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.
It's a very confusing era that we're in.
I keep working because I learn something new all the time.
I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film.
I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.