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When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old
Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.
The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.
There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.
I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the character.
[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.
As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.
My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.
I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.
My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.
I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.
With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.
You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?
At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.
I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.
'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.
Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.
My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.
You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.
If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.
Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.
You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.
Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.
You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.
You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.
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.
I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.
The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.
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.
[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.
Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'
In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.