Clint Eastwood is 87: the rules of life for the cult actor

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31 May 1930 was born an actor, director, producer, businessman, politician and composer Clint Eastwood. During his career, Eastwood received the Oscars 5, Golden Globes 3, the Legion of Honor and many other awards.

For many decades, Eastwood has remained a symbol of a real man - courageous, honest and skillful, who follows his own life rules.

Better call me "icon" than hey you

I was rarely bullied in childhood. Firstly, I was above everyone else in the class, and secondly, we constantly moved. Redding, Sacramento, Pacific Palisades, again Redding, again Sacramento, Hayward, Niles, Oakland (cities in California. - Esquire). We were always on the move, and I was always new at school. Every gang, of course, wanted to deal with me, check who I was. I was a rather shy guy, but most of the time it took me to give all kinds of freaks in the neck.

As a child I played the flugelhorn, and the neighbors' guys looked at me and seemed to think: “What the fuck?”.

Today's generation - This generation of loose cats. Faced with a problem, they say: let's analyze the behavior of a bully from the point of view of psychology. And we just gave hooligans in the ass.

I do not know what is wrong with this generation. Maybe people began to think en masse about the meaning of life?

I found a great depression. There was no work, there were no benefits. Once, when I was 6 years old, a thin man knocked at our house. He said that he would give us all the wood if his mother made him a sandwich. People barely held out, but they were much stronger than those around me now.

In Iceland, I was at the same waterfall. Together with other people, I stood on a small stone platform, from where a view of the waterfall opened. Many had children. From the abyss we were separated only by a stretched rope. And I thought: in America they would have enclosed everything with a grid and a tall fence. They would have one thought on their mind: if someone falls, his lawyer will immediately appear. But there, in Iceland, people think the same way they used to think in America: if you fell, you are an idiot.

Can't foresee everything but we are stubbornly trying. If there is no 4 of hundreds of airbags in the car we are buying, then the car is, of course, crap.

It is very difficult to intimidate a person when he 80.

Whether you like it or not I must admit that death exists. But I am not afraid of her. I believe: when your time comes, you have to go. That was the deal at birth.

My father died suddenly. Just took it and died when he was 63. After that, I asked myself for a very long time why I didn’t take him to play golf, why I didn’t spend more time with him. But when you chase a big prize, you stop paying attention to everything else.

Mother is dead when she was 97 years old. Shortly before her death, she told me: "I want to leave, I'm tired." I said, "No, not yet 3 of the year, just 3 of the year, and you will mark the centenary." But she did not want to hear me. “Just look into my eyes,” she said. I looked into her eyes and understood everything.

Take your age with gratitude - it is a great gift. But it's too late for me to study.

Old age may not be so bad if you just lie and enjoy it.

Maybe I'm starting to think like an old man but it seems to me that people have become more angry and intolerant than they were before. Previously, we could be disagreeing on some important issue, but still remained friends. And today the one who disagrees with you is a moron and an idiot. Watch any talk show.

I can be called a libertarian. I would like everyone to leave everyone alone. When I was a child, there were too many people around who told everyone how to live.

I have always respected believers with great respect, whose lives are built according to faith. But if you can live life without it - live. I myself am not too passionate about religion, but I try not to transmit my doubts to everyone around me.

They say marriages are made in heaven. Yeah, right where thunder and lightning come from.

The older you get, the more you start to love children.

My children are from different women. But it was Dina who brought us all together. She completely lacks the psychology of the second wife - well, you know, this mentality of a cave woman. She gets along well with my first wife, with my former girlfriends. The family keeps on her, and no one has had the same influence on me in my life as she.

I don't give a shit who wants to get married - gay or someone else. Don't make so much noise out of it. Let everyone have the opportunity to live the life they chose.

Men, self-confident and internally balanced, they won't kick the door open, offend women and mock gays.

“Macho” was a buzzword in 1980. Macho then macho this, this macho, that one is not a macho. But I did not fully understand who the macho is. Is it someone who walks around, exuding testosterone? Who opens the door with his foot and can walk the wheel? I remember meeting Rocky Marciano (famous American boxer, 1923-1969. - Esquire). It was a gentle, calm person who did not try to shatter your fingers when he shook his hand. And he had a high voice. But he could knock out a man in a second. As it seems to me, this is the macho. Muhammad Ali, by the way, is the same.

It happened, that I killed a bunch of people on the screen. Perhaps this is such a catharsis, and perhaps just sadism. Or it means nothing at all.

There was a moment in my life when people approached me and asked to leave an autograph on their pistols.

Offer people to donate weapons, motivating this by saying that it’s too much around, it’s just the same as offering people to cut their eggs, because the neighbors have too many children.

Being politically correct - This is very boring.

Political Correctness makes people gradually lose their sense of humor. We used to joke freely about people of different races and nationalities, but today, if you want to joke like that, you will cover your mouth with your hand so that no one can hear you. Our friends for us were “Sam-Jew”, “Jose-Mexico”, but we did not put anything offensive in these nicknames. And today we spend too much energy and time trying to be politically correct.

Instead of "removed" I always scream "enough already this shit."

When directors shout "motor", even horses get scared.

For me, it's better to be behind the camera, than in front of her. There you can wear whatever clothes you want.

In the acting school I was once told: "For God's sake, do nothing, just wait." Well, Gary Cooper, for example, perfectly knew how to do nothing.

It’s impossible to teach a person to be an actor but it can be done in such a way that a person will teach himself.

You can rehearse the role hundreds of times, you can just go out and play. I prefer the second.

In the "Substitution" (Eastwood's film from the life of 1920's. - Esquire) I tried to show something that you cannot see anywhere else today: the boy sits in front of the radio and looks at it. Just looking at the radio and listening to what it says. Everything else does his imagination.

Angelina Jolie is beautiful. She reminds me of women of the forties - Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman. No, women today are just as beautiful, but then they still had more individuality.

Hollywood is mired in plagiarism. Not so long ago, people came to me who asked if they could not reshoot my "Unforgiven". And this is a completely new movie, 1992 year!

If all of these movie managers the opinion of some store clerk from a focus group is important, then let it take a movie.

There are lots of great movies, who don't get an Oscar.

The budgets of modern films are so huge that this money would be more than enough to capture a small country.

I was against the introduction of troops into Iraq. Democracy cannot be built overnight. This is something that people must first believe for themselves.

Politicians are divided into two categories: I am a man and we are a man. Barack Obama is me man. He talks about bin Laden as if he himself shot him.

Modern politician must promise everything to everyone. Otherwise, he simply will not be elected.

Never forget that we just hire politicians to serve us.

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Win an election - this is bad good news (in 1986, Eastwood won the election for mayor of the California town Carmel. - Esquire). Okay, you say to yourself, the good news is that I am the mayor now. And the bad thing is that I am now the mayor.

As Jerry Fielding said (American musician and composer, 1922-1980. - Esquire), "we have achieved a lot - let's not destroy anything by thinking too much about it."

If I had it all right with self-organization, I would definitely find myself in music.

Time, when every day I wanted to catch up on 1 times more than yesterday passed. Now I want to do only what I consider necessary.

Today so many photographers constantly hover around me that sometimes they surround me like walls in a cheap motel.

Need to be serious about work and not serious - to yourself.

I like to work with those who do not need to prove something to someone.

For the whole life I have not met a single genius, because a genius, it seems to me, is someone who is good at work and who hates. Be successful and great in what he likes, everyone can.

Tomorrow promises no one.

I never did not consider himself a cowboy.

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