Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr.is an American actor, film director, producer, musician, and political figure. He rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth31 May 1930
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I saw Sidney Lumet out there, who's 80, and I thought, 'I'm just a kid,'
I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.
I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.
I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.
I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.
As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.
A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.
A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.
My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.
I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.
Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
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'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.