Frasi di Clint Eastwood

“Siamo tutti stanchi del politically correct. Oggi siamo nel pieno della generazione "kiss-ass", la generazione "pussy": questo non si può dire, questo non si può fare, tutto è proibito. Altrimenti piovono accuse di razzismo.”

“Il sesso occupa una piccola parte della vita. È una bella cosa, davvero fantastica, ma il 99,9 per cento dell'esistenza viene dedicato alla realizzazione di altri obiettivi.”

“Io vado a puttane da quando Cristo era ancora a capotavola.”

“È meglio che prendi nota. Io sono cattivo, incazzato e stanco. Sono uno che mangia filo spinato, piscia napalm e riesce a mettere una palla in culo a una pulce a 200 metri. Per cui va' a rompere il cazzo a qualcun altro, e levati dalle scatole.”

“Le opinioni sono come le palle: ognuno ha le sue.”

“Ho visto ogni genere di set. Sono stato su set cinematografici in cui tutti avevano i nervi a fior di pelle. Ma se cominci a urlare, a mostrarti insofferente, a schizzare da una parte all'altra, dai l'impressione di insicurezza. E questa diventa contagiosa. Si trasmette agli attori che diventano nervosi, poi si diffonde tra le maestranze e anch'esse si fanno irritabili, e questo non ti facilita le cose. E se io non sono di buon umore, se non riesco a comunicare questo stato d'animo, posso aspettarmi che gli altri lavorino serenamente.”

“A volte, nella maggior parte dei casi, lascio che gli attori si sciolgano un poco.”

“Non credo di essere mai stato attratto da una donna che non ami la musica, che non abbia interesse per la musica.”

“Se qualcosa non va per il verso giusto, devi sforzarti di farcela andare. Se pensi che potrebbe piovere, alla fine pioverà.”

“Ho sempre ritenuto che ci sia qualcosa che brucia dentro di noi. Sono sempre stato convinto che un attore debba restare in contatto con la sua rabbia.”

“È difficile lavorare su un set. Non puoi conoscere tutti. Ci sono cinquanta, a volte anche sessanta persone in giro… uno ti pettina, l'altro parla del tuo guardaroba, e tutti fanno pressione, ti fanno fretta mentre pensi: Dio, adesso devo andare davanti alla cinepresa e recitare.”

“Leone era provvisto in egual misura di un grande senso dell'umorismo e di una tendenza alla visionarietà. Era estremamente naturale. Non aveva paura di fare qualcosa di nuovo.”

“Chiunque sarà meglio di Obama.”

“Siamo tutti stanchi del politically correct.”

“Ciò che mi interessa più di ogni altra cosa nel lavoro e nella vita è la ricerca della verità. Questo percorso mi spinge ancora a dirigere film.”

“Ho sempre avuto la convinzione che gli attori che implorano il pubblico di amarli… siano sempre peggiori di quelli che dicono: 'Andate al diavolo, se non vi piaccio non venite a vedermi.”

“[A proposito di James Stewart] Penso che riuscisse a entrare in contatto con la sua rabbia più di ogni altro attore della sua generazione.”

“Se vuoi garanzie, comprati un tostapane.”

“Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.”

“Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!”

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

“I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

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

“Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

(Interview,, February 20, 2005)”

“Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino play losers very well. But my audience like to be in there vicariously with a winner. That isn't always popular with critics. My characters have sensitivity and vulnerabilities, but they're still winners. I don't pretend to understand losers. When I read a script about a loser I think of people in life who are losers and they seem to want it that way. It's a compulsive philosophy with them. Winners tell themselves, I'm as bright as the next person. I can do it. Nothing can stop me.”

“Tomorrow is promised to no one.”

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

“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.”

“I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it.”

“I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.”

“First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby… I guarantee you.”

“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.”

“Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously”

“It's a hell of a thing; killin' a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.”

“I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?”

“Nothing wrong with shooting… as long as the right people get shot.”

“If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.”

“My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.”

“Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?”

“A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime”

“Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.”

“Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet.”

“I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be president, anyway. … I think it is maybe time -- what do you think -- for maybe a businessman. How about that? A stellar businessman.”

“Everybody wonders why I continue working at this stage. I keep working because there's always new stories. … And as long as people want me to tell them, I'll be there doing them.”

“Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.”

“I wanted to play it with an economy of words and create this whole feeling through attitude and movement. It was just the kind of character I had envisioned for a long time, keep to the mystery and allude to what happened in the past. It came about after the frustration of doing Rawhide for so long. I felt the less he said the stronger he became and the more he grew in the imagination of the audience.”

“With that kind of money, I could have invaded some country.”