Clint Eastwood movie quotes

“- Horace King: I think you really should go on vacation.
- Harry Callahan: Forget it. I never take a vacation.
- Horace King: Well either that or quit.
- Harry Callahan: That's good idea right there. I really should quit. Then I can handle the law my own way.”
Albert Popwell - Horace King
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“If I lived there, I'd move.”

Clint Eastwood

“- Walt Kowalski: In 1952, we were sent up to take out a Chinese machine gun nest. It shredded us up pretty good. I was the only one who came back that day. Not long after, they gave me a silver star... Here, I want you to have it.
- Thao: Why?
- Walt Kowalski: Because we all knew the dangers that night, but we went in anyway. That's the way it...” (continue)(continue reading)

Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski
Bee Vang - Thao

“- Smokie: Go back in the house.
- Walt Kowalski: Yeah? I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house... and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that.”
Sonny Vue - Smokie
Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski

“- Steve Everett: I'm writing a human-interest sidebar. Do you know what that is?
- Counter Woman at Pocum's Grocery: No, I don't think I do.
- Steve Everett: I don't think I do either.”
Clint Eastwood - Steve Everett
Linda Hoy - Counter Woman at Pocum's Grocery

“- Lt. Donnelly: Harry, these bastards are not a bunch of junkies. In their minds you killed Threlkis, same as if you pulled the trigger. They're not gonna stop, they're gonna keep comin' after you.
- Harry Callahan: Good, that way we'll know where they are.
- Lt. Donnelly: You're incredible, Callahan!”
Michael Currie - Lt. Donnelly
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“- Captain Donnelly: You know what this is, Callahan? It's a bill for a TV camera and lens. When I told you to stop wrecking our cars, I didn't mean go out and find something else to destroy!
- Harry Callahan: They were interfering with an official investigation, Sir.
- Lt. Ackerman: Don't give us that. Is this your idea of cooperation with the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Currie - Captain Donnelly
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan
Michael Goodwin - Lt. Ackerman

“- Cholla: You Philo Beddoe?
- Philo Beddoe: Do I know you?
- Cholla: You're gonna.”
John Quade - Cholla
Clint Eastwood - Philo Beddoe

“It's like I always tell you kid, you've got to fight when you think it's the right thing to do. Otherwise, you feel like your gut's full of puss. Even if you get the hell beat out of you, if you fight, you feel ok about it.”
Clint Eastwood - John Wilson

“- Henry Lowenstein: You're a real dyed-in-the-wool son of a bitch. Anybody ever tell you that?
- Steve Everett: Just close friends and family.”
Anthony Zerbe - Henry Lowenstein
Clint Eastwood - Steve Everett

“- Sue: Some Hmong people tend to smile or grin, when they're yelled at. It's a cultural thing, it expresses embarrassment or insecurity. It's not that they're laughing at you or anything.
- Walt Kowalsky: Right, you people are nuts.”
Ahney Her - Sue
Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalsky

“To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful where the dog shits ya!”
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“I may not be the most pleasant person to be around, but I got the best woman who was ever on this planet to marry me.”
Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski

“- Frank Corvin: Well, what do you say, Reverend? You think a prayer's in order?
- Tank Sullivan: I was just reciting the Shepard's Prayer. Alan Shepard's prayer. Oh Lord, please don't let us screw up. Amen.”
Clint Eastwood - Frank Corvin
James Garner - Tank Sullivan

“- Father Janovich: Why didn't you call the police?
- Walt Kowalski: Well you know, I prayed for them to come but nobody answered.”
Christopher Carley - Father Janovich
Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski

“- Gus: You need some money for some new clothes?
- Mickey: I just came from yoga.
- Gus: You into that voodoo, huh?
- Mickey: Yeah. I'm thinking about getting three sixes tattooed across my forehead.”
Clint Eastwood - Gus
Amy Adams - Mickey

“- Sergeant Webster: Major Powers and I are building an e-lite company of fighting men.
- Highway: The only thing you could build, Webster... is a good case of hemorrhoids.”
Moses Gunn - Sgt. Webster
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“Having to wade through the scum of this city, being swept away by bigger and bigger waves of corruption, apathy and red tape. Nah, that doesn't bother me.”
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“- Orville: Philo... Jordan said he'd give us 200 big ones if we scrap that Merc for him.
- Philo Beddoe: Great. Clyde? Scrap the Merc.”
Geoffrey Lewis - Orville
Clint Eastwood - Philo Beddoe

“- Pete Klein: Have you thought about what you'll do when your contract is up?
- Gus: Sure, sign another one for more money.”
John Goodman - Pete Klein
Clint Eastwood - Gus

“You shoot to kill, you better hit the heart.”
Clint Eastwood - Joe

“Do you know the emergency phone number for San Francisco General? Well, why don't you call them right now and have them sent down an ambulance? Tell them there's two sorry-looking assholes here with multiple contusions and various abrasions and broken bones.”
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“I want you to turn around, go outside, comeback and don't talk about having no job, no car, no girlfriend, no future, no dick.”

Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski

“- Mitch Leary: The irony is so thick you could choke on it.
- Frank Horrigan: There's no fucking irony, Mitch.
- Mitch Leary: Think, Frank. The same government that trained me to kill trained you to protect. Yet now you want to kill me while up on that roof I protected you. They're gonna write books about us, Frank.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“- Hawk Hawkins: Would you prefer this man, with his asymmetrical sagging ass-cheeks, his love-handles the size of Nebraska, and his oh-so-ugly in-grown toenail...?
- Frank Corvin: Or this son of a bitch with the chicken-gizzard neck and the face that looks like thirty miles of Death Valley fire trail?”

Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins
Clint Eastwood - Frank Corvin