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"You get trapped by an image, but I've overcome it to some degree," commented Clint Eastwood in a Gentleman's Quarterly interview with Bernard Weinraub. "What the hell! You make an impact in a certain kind of role and everyone thinks you're that person. That's fine. It's nice in a way--you've set out to do what you want to do. But I don't carry a .44 Magnum around. . . . I've fought my way out of the genre."
Still, as Cosmopolitan writer Michael Segell noted, "Eastwood invites comparison to the rugged, laconic tough guys he's played during thirty-plus years of filmmaking. A loner with conservative working-class values . . . he admits to sharing a few traits of temperament with some of the maverick characters he's come to be identified with: Dirty Harry, The Man With No Name, William Munny (the hero of Unforgiven), and other moral avengers whose gritty independence pushes them to the fringes of society." Over the course of his acting and directing career, Eastwood has become entrenched as a true icon of American film on the strength of these roles.
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