My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

— Clint Eastwood

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

— Clint Eastwood

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

— 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

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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.

— Clint Eastwood

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

— Clint Eastwood