I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. 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 More Quotes by Clint Eastwood More Quotes From Clint Eastwood When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life. Clint Eastwood musician regret looks Things always look different from higher up. Clint Eastwood higher different looks I was drafted during the Korean War. Clint Eastwood korean-war korean war A man's just gotta know his limits Clint Eastwood limits knows men Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing. Clint Eastwood acting intellectual animal I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things. Clint Eastwood made long reality As you get older, you change certain things. Clint Eastwood certain I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what ...." And I'd say, "I know. I read the script. I'm the one who cast you as the director. Let me show you and you'll correct me if I'm wrong." Clint Eastwood well-known scripts directors If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs. Clint Eastwood care actors directors I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant. Clint Eastwood dollars friday play I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have. Clint Eastwood different play opportunity I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have... or just as much certainly... I enjoy making films behind the camera equally to making them in front of the camera on all those years. I just enjoy it, that's all. I've been lucky enough to work in a profession that I have really liked and so I figured I'd just continue until someone hits me over the head and says "get out". Clint Eastwood cameras lucky years Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree. Clint Eastwood aging degrees fun I always felt blessed that I was able to make a living in a profession [acting] that not a lot of people can make a living at, and I was able to do something I liked, rather than be in a job that I hated. Clint Eastwood blessed jobs people There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling. Clint Eastwood imperfection eye running You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change. Clint Eastwood things-change circumstances years I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them. Clint Eastwood involved film watches My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere. Clint Eastwood libertarian republican wife I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama. Clint Eastwood nice drama thinking If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective. Clint Eastwood perspective political over-you
