Clint Eastwood the actor-and-director — who will turn 80 on May 31st — prefers to stay behind the camera and allow younger stars to take center stage, but insists he has no plans to quit acting altogether.
“I leave that to younger actors now,” he said. “I’m not a prize fighter who has to capture another victory. Since I worked as a director for the first time on Play Misty for Me in 1970 I’ve become tired of seeing myself on the big screen.
“That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop acting, though”
The Million Dollar Baby star is still determined to try new things, and believes directing films gives him more opportunities to push himself.
“If you’ve done as many films as I have you stop looking back, you’re only going forwards,” he said.
“As a director it’s important to me to try new things once in a while. And as an actor, if a film is finished you can’t change it and you have to leave it to other people to judge your work.”
Eastwood has previously revealed that he doesn’t celebrate his birthday.
“Once you get in the 70s, several things happen,” he said in December last year. “One is, you stop celebrating birthdays.
“I’ve forbidden my wife. I said, ‘Please, no birthday things!’ I don’t need to pretend to open a gift and say ‘this is just what I wanted!’
“I said, ‘Don’t get me anything. We’ll just have a glass of wine’. Seventy-nine is not so bad. I might savor it for a while.”
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