“This here's a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and it can blow your head clean off. Now, you must ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well do you, punk? - Clint Eastwood”
“[Pauline Kael never forgave Clint Eastwood for that statement or for making Dirty Harr y, and she was on hand to set her hooks into the inevitable sequel that followed in 1973, Magnum Force . Of that film she wrote:] Clint Eastwood isn't offensive. He isn't an actor, so one could hardly call him a bad actor....And acting isn't required of him in Magnum Force , which takes its name from the giant's phallus. ... A tall, cold cod like Eastwood removes the last pretensions to human feeling from the action melodrama, making it an impersonal, almost abstract exercise in brutalization.”
“[The intrinsic attraction of flat tax has been most pithily expressed by none other than Clint Eastwood.] All of a sudden, what do you have? ... You have the whole tax system run by a little old lady on a home computer, doing the work of all these thousands of bureaucrats and accountants.”
