Clint Eastwood Quotes: Goes Dirty Harry on 'Gran Torino' Movie

Clint Eastwood quotes are like a special trip to the Carnegie Science Center. It's like you get to open up his mind and see how all that stuff in there works. Clint Eastwood is a legend as an actor and he is quickly becoming one of the best filmmakers in Hollywood, too. Clint Eastwood's quotes cover a few of the best movies he has been involved in including Dirty Harry, Gran Torino and Million Dollar Baby. Most of his fans will be surprised at which role he found really difficult. Here are the top ten best Clint Eastwood quotes. Welcome into the mind of one of Hollywood's true greats.

Clint Eastwood quote On Gran Torino

"That will probably do it for me as far as acting is concerned. You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best."

Dirty Harry cries

"I always cry when I watch myself on screen."

Clint Eastwood on marriage

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

Clint Eastwood quote on movies

"I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life."

Quote on gun control

"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."

Kids can act

"I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time."

Don't expect to see Clint Eastwood get plastic surgery

"Plastic surgery used to be a thing where older people would try to go into this dream world of being 28-years old again. But now, in Hollywood, even people at 28 are having work done. Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year old model all your life. But I figure I might as well just be what I am."

More than just an action star

"Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is OK. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so."

Clint Eastwood quote on Dirty Harry

"I think people jumped to conclusions about Dirty Harry without giving the character much thought, trying to attach right-wing connotations to the film that were never really intended. Both the director [Don Siegel] and I thought it was a basic kind of drama - what do you do when you believe so much in law and order and coming to the rescue of people and you just have five hours to solve a case? That kind of impossible effort was fun to portray, but I think it was interpreted as a pro-police point of view, as a kind of rightist heroism, at a time in American history when police officers were looked down on as "pigs", as very oppressive people - I'm sure there are some who are, and a lot who aren't. I've met both kinds."

Quote on The Bridges of Madison County

"When I was doing The Bridges of Madison County , I said to myself, 'This romantic stuff is really tough. I can't wait to get back to shooting and killing.'"

Clint Eastwood on Million Dollar Baby

"It's a tragedy that could have been written by the Greeks or Shakespeare."

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