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• 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
  • Reported in Patrick McGilligan, Clint: The Life and Legend (2002), p. 112; in the first part, Eastwood was reportedly quoting a favored instruction from acting coach Jack Kosslyn.

• I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.
  • Reported in Leslie Halliwell, John Walker, Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2003), p. 149.

• There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
  • Reported in Investor's Business Daily (April 9, 2001), A-4.

• With that kind of money, I could have invaded some country.
  • On the $31 million cost of making a film, reported in "Figures and quotes", Bristol Evening Post (June 19, 2007), p. 36.

• This is one politician who doesn't have ambitions to leave Carmel.
  • "1986: Eastwood voted mayor by landslide," BBC: On This Day-8 April.

• In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.
  • Maher, Kevin, "Clint Eastwood the bashful legend: somebody stop me," Times Online, (2008-11-13).