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If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

I haven't been very active in politics.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

Every story has its demands.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

Man becomes his most creative during war.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I have worked ever since I was 13.

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.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

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.

If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

I love stories about women.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum.

I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I like working. That's when I'm feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

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.

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.

Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.

I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

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

Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.'

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

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.

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.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show.

I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't know, and I'll burst the bubble. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

I've had no problem harnessing anger.

I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

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

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

You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

We boil at different degrees.

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

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.

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

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

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

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

Men must know their limitations.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

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