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"Everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something. There are many things you can go back and have regrets about. I don't like doing that. But by the same token I do agree that when you get to a certain stage in life, you change. And you should change."
"I do believe in self-help."
"I'm thinking, That's Barack Obama. He doesn't go to work. He doesn't go down to Congress and make a deal. What the hell's he doing sitting in the White House? If I were in that job, I'd get down there and make a deal. Sure, Congress are lazy bastards, but so what? You're the top guy. You're the president of the company. It's your responsibility to make sure everybody does well. It's the same with every company in this country, whether it's a two-man company or a two-hundred-man company... . And that's the pussy generation - nobody wants to work."
"I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it."
"Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously."
"I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life."
"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 don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it."
"I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward."
"I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by."
"Things always look different from higher up."
"Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing."
"I was drafted during the Korean War."
"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.""
"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."
"Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That's the secret to life, really: never stop learning. It's the secret to career. I'm still working because I learn something new all the time. It's the secret to relationships. Never think you've got it all."
"Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once."
"Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth."
"I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you."
"Men must know their limitations."