Clint Eastwood Quotes

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.