Actor and director Clint Eastwood once said: “Don’t look for luxury in watches and bracelets, don’t look for luxury in forks and sails. Luxury is laughter and friends, luxury is rain on your face, luxury is hugs. It’s a kiss. Don’t expect luxury from a store, and don’t expect luxury from a gift. Don’t expect luxury at parties, don’t expect luxury at events.Luxury means being loved by people, luxury means being respected, and luxury means living well. Luxury is being able to play with your grandchildren, and luxury is something that money can’t buy.
In 2024, social media users shared quotes about luxury on the platform Contains X (archived), facebook (archived), and Instagram (archived), attributed to actor and director Clint Eastwood. one facebook post (archived) This article featuring a version of this quote has received approximately 10,000 likes and 2,400 shares as of this writing.
(Facebook user Palihasiri Suduhewa)
Here is the full quote:
Don’t look for luxury in watches and bracelets, and don’t look for luxury in forks and sails.
Luxury is laughter and friends, luxury is rain on your face, luxury is hugs and kisses.
Don’t expect a high-class feel from a store, don’t expect a high-class feel from a gift, don’t expect a high-class feel from a party, and don’t expect a high-class feel from an event. Luxury is being loved by others, luxury is being respected, luxury is having your parents alive, luxury is being able to play with your grandchildren, luxury is something that money cannot buy.
Some social media users expressed doubts about the attribution of the quote. For example, one Facebook user said, commented (archived): “Actually, he doesn’t look like him.” Similarly, user I wrote (archived): “I don’t know if Clint said this, but I reposted it anyway!”
These commenters are understandably skeptical. Posted by Eastwood’s official X account @EastwoodMalpaso on July 2, 2024. article (archived) addresses the claim that Eastwood ever said this quote. The article included a screenshot of the quote in question and text that read:
False messages and speeches have been circulating on social media recently, falsely linking Clint to speeches about luxury goods and aging. To be clear, Clint had no part in writing or sharing any of these speeches… Clint is not going to go online to write speeches about luxury goods or aging. It’s not something he usually talks about, and he definitely doesn’t write about it online.
The actual source of the quote was not immediately clear. The article on Eastwood’s account identifies the “original author” as “Miguel Fierro, who posted on his TikTok account,” possibly a reference to Ecuadorian mixed martial arts fighter Miguel Fierro, and the Spanish version of the quote. Versions are also included (archived). in the caption of a May 14, 2024 TikTok post.
The full text of the Spanish version is below:
There is no Basque el Lujo in Parceras, there is no Basque in Belleros in the mansions, *Lujo son lisas and amigos, Lujo es no star enfermo, Lujo es la Luvia en la・Kara, Lujo Son Abrasos y Besos*
Basque el lujo en tiendas, ni en regalos, no lo basque en fiesta, ni en eventos,
*Lujo es que la gente te quiera, lujo es que te tengan respeto, lujo es que vivant tus padres, lujo es poder jugal con los nietos, lujo son essus pequeñas cosas, que no se pueden compra con dinero, lujo es tenor tiempo para This is an entry*
Although Fierro did not attribute this quote to anyone in his post, we have seen the Spanish version of this quote on the internet explicitly attributed to Eastwood, as well as previous (archived) social media I found many posts (archives). It doesn’t actually originate from Fiyero.
Finally, an article posted by Eastwood’s official X account clearly stated that Eastwood never said the words about luxury that some social media users have attributed to him. , we rated this quote as misattributed.
We previously investigated other claims about Eastwood. rumor He once said, “If a man called a duck a goose, women used to smile, nod, and pretend it was a goose. Now they just say it’s a duck. That’s why patriarchy… Don’t tell me it still exists.” ”
