Clint Eastwood Quotes

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

We are what we pretend to be.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

If you think I'm a young boy singing these songs, dope. Run with that.

I am not what you see and hear.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

Never get caught acting.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?