Clinton Eastwood, Jr. (b.1930) is an American movie actor and director. One of Hollywood’s living legends, his career in motion pictures has spanned five-and-a-half decades. He is acclaimed as a talented actor, an Oscar-winning director and producer, and a gifted composer of scores and soundtracks.
Eastwood’s career as a Hollywood superstar originated when he starred in A Fistful of Dollars (1964,) the first in Italian director Sergio Leone’s trinity of “spaghetti westerns” featuring Eastwood as “the man with no name.” It was a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s samurai classic Yojimbo (1961.) Eastwood then portrayed the renegade San Francisco police detective “Dirty Harry” Callahan in five movies, beginning with Dirty Harry (1971.)
Movies in which Eastwood directed as well as starred include Bird (1988,) Unforgiven (1992,) The Bridges of Madison County (1994,) and Million Dollar Baby (2004.)
Eastwood is also a self-taught jazz pianist and has often composed the scores for his films. He served as the mayor of Carmel, California, 1986–88, and has supported Republican presidential candidates.
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I’ve got a firm policy on gun control; If there”s a gun around, I want to be the one controlling it
—Clint Eastwood
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Self-respect, Self Respect, Respect
I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Prejudice
I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Reason
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Action, Control
Go ahead, make my day.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Anger
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Discipline, Influence
I think that, for all of us, as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Discipline, Aging
If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Optimism, Positive Attitudes
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.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Cynicism, Pessimism
If something doesn’t come up the way you want, you have to forge ahead.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Endurance, Perseverance, Resolve
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