Who is your favorite professional golfer to play with? I have played with so many great guys, but I probably should say that Ray Floyd is my favorite, just because he put up with me for so many years as my partner in the pro-am. We had some great times together. We never won, but that’s golf.

While arguably his most famous character, Dirty Harry was actually another actor's sloppy seconds: Paul Newman passed on the script. "Of course my first question was, 'Why didn't he want to do it?' He thought the character was sort of a radical guy on the right, so politically he couldn't do it. I didn't see it that way... I'll miss him. He was just one of those guys you liked."

Eastwood has met most of Hollywood's biggest legends. But a certain person stands out as the strangest. "Hitchcock wanted me to be in one of his films [which, it turned out, would never be made]. I wasn't nuts about the script. I had lunch with him in his office. When I walked in, he was sitting there very erect and he didn't even move. Only his eyes did. They followed you across the room. He had the same thing for lunch every day — a steak and some sliced tomatoes."

Growing up in California, Eastwood's favorite actor was James Cagney. "When he comes out in White Heat eating a chicken leg and blasting a guy in the trunk of a car, you go, 'Yeah, that's offsetting, but in a nice way.' The scene in Dirty Harry where I'm eating a hot dog in that shootout, that's a steal."