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Despite smoking in some of his films, Eastwood is a lifelong non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and as a Vegan practices healthy eating and daily Transcendental Meditation. While promoting his film, Hereafter, Eastwood spoke about his views on religion and meditation by saying " I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them.

But if you can go through life without it, that ’ s OK, too.

It ’ s whatever suits you.

I do believe in self-help.

I ’ m not a New Age person but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I ’ ve always liked the Buddhist religion.

When I ’ ve been to Japan I ’ ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated and I found that rewarding.

" Eastwood also said that he was on the fence when it came to believing in God saying " I was born during the Depression and I was brought up with no specific church.

We moved every four or five months during the first 14 years of my life, so I was sent to a different church depending on wherever we lived.

Most of them were Protestant, but I went to other churches because my parents wanted me to try to figure out things for myself.

They always said, ‘ I just want to expose you to some religious order and see if that ’ s something you like ’.

So although my religious training was not really specific, I do feel spiritual things.

If I stand on the side of the Grand Canyon and look down, it moves me in some way.

" Of course, it would be wonderful to talk with my parents again, who are, of course, deceased.

It makes the idea of death much less scary.

But then again, if you think that nothing happens after you die, maybe it makes you live life better.

Maybe you ’ re supposed to do the best you can by the gift you ’ re given of life and that alone ".