Clint Eastwood Quotes

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.

Hollywood listens to money and to controversy.

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

The Oscars is a sport. There's the excitement of watching something live, as it happens.

Only the elites despise earning money.

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.

These Jews seem to think of nothing but making money and sexual indulgence …. Ninety-Five percent of these folks are Jews of Eastern European lineage. They are probably the scum of the earth.

For me, growing up in Indiana with cornfields and churches, I was always very intrigued by the Academy Awards - they were a big event. That was the one night of the year when all of the glittering movie stars got together, and I used to love that night because, as a child, it was a way to dream for me.

I'd like to win an Oscar and then refuse it so I can protest the way they've treated Marlon Brando.