“So we were constantly on the road, and I was always the new guy in school. The bullies always thought, ‘Here’s this big gangly guy. We gotta take him on.’ You know how kids are. ‘We gotta test him.’ I was a shy kid. But a lot of my childhood was spent punching the bullies out. We live in more of a pussy generation now, where everybody’s become used to saying, ‘Well, how do we handle it psychologically?’ In those days, you just punched the bully back and duked it out.”
Clint Eastwood (as told to Esquire, December 2008)
