EXCLUSIVE: Clint Eastwood at 95 — And How the Man From Malpaso is STILL Living By His Rules

He became world-famous as the Man With No Name, but in real life, Clint Eastwood often seems more like the Man With No Words, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

Dining out with her Every Which Way But Loose leading man in 1978, "people kept coming up to our table to get Clint's autograph," actress Beverly D'Angelo recalled.

"Then, suddenly, it stopped. He didn't say anything, but he exuded something to let people know he was not approachable."

Dubbed Clint the Squint, the soft-spoken star has an innate desire for solitude that epitomizes his eternally cool and iconic characters as well.

"I'm a little like Dirty Harry and the Man With No Name," he said. "The loner who drifts in search of adventure is what I'm about."

That wanderlust has complicated his love life, though. At 95, he's left a trail of broken hearts, fathering eight kids with six women.

But "he's always been a good dad," said daughter Alison Eastwood. "He made time for us, even when he was working."

Added daughter Francesca Eastwood, "He's the real deal. He taught me to trust myself and fight for what I believe in."

The roots of Clint's lonely nature run deep into his childhood. Growing up during the Depression, he moved frequently as his father sought work wherever he could find it.

"Ten schools in 10 years," Clint said. "I just drifted."

The gangly perpetual new kid mostly played alone and was often beaten up, and he learned to fight back: "A lot of my childhood was spent punching the bullies out."

After high school, Clint worked a series of menial jobs and at 22 married model Maggie Johnson. But he wasn't cut out to be a family man.

"The first year of marriage was terrible," he said a decade later.

"One thing Mag learned about me was that I was going to do as I pleased. She had to accept that, because if she didn't, we wouldn't be married."

She also remained willfully oblivious to Clint's frequent philandering, especially after he found TV fame as kindhearted ranch hand Rowdy Yates on Rawhide in 1959.

"Clint had a lot of girlfriends at that time," said Barbara Eden, who guested on the show. "He flirted with everybody."

In fact, he did more than that, fathering a daughter, Kimber Lynn, with leggy stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis in 1964, just as Rawhide was ending its run and he achieved movie stardom with his first "spaghetti Western," A Fistful of Dollars. Clint kept his paternity a secret, even from Maggie, but supported the child financially.

As the Man With No Name, Clint found an antihero in line with his own complicated morality.

"I just don't think you can make heroes in movies like in the old days where the good guys were all good and the bad guys were all bad," he said.

He pushed those limits further as a solitary, trigger-happy police detective in 1971's Dirty Harry, a smash that spawned four sequels and almost as many catchphrases – "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?'"

"Go ahead, make my day." "It's vengeance – getting even is an important thing for the public," Clint says. "They work for some guy they can't stand and they have to take it. Then they see me on the screen and I kick the s*** out of them."

Even as he carried on affairs, Clint remained wed to Johnson for 31 years and together they had Kyle and Alison. "My brother and I often spent vacations with my dad while he worked," Alison recalled fondly. "We always had chores we loved doing when we weren't terrorizing craft services for candy and sweets."

Clint himself became sweet on Sondra Locke, his love interest in 1976's Western The Outlaw Josey Wales.

"I've never known anyone that I wanted to be around me all the time," she said he told her. "I'm usually trying to get away."

After rumors of the romance became public, Clint and Johnson separated and eventually divorced in 1984.

"He had this thing about being a loner, like I kind of didn't exist at times," Johnson said.

His rootlessness eventually drove a wedge between Clint and Lovkr, who alleged in her 1997 memoir The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey he urged her to get two abortions and a tubal ligation during their 13-year relationship.

Clint "adamantly" denied those accusations and said the choices were "entirely" Locke's.

But she says Clint lived in a "cold, indifferent, narcissistic universe all his own" and sued him for supposedly trying to torpedo her career following their split. The case was settled out of court.

All the while, Clint continued to go with his gut professionally.

"My agent begged me not to do it," he says of the redneck-comedy hit Every Which Way But Loose. "And the public loved it. If you make a couple decisions where your instincts worked well, why would you abandon them?"

He followed his intuition to become a director – "he knew what he wanted from every shot," Donna Mills, costar of his 1971 debut Play Misty for Me, said – and it paid off in a big way with 1992's Unforgiven.

The role of William Munny, a repentant gunslinger who rescues a group of endangered prostitutes, seemed profoundly autobiographical.

"He's a man with a very bad past, and he's haunted by it," Clint explained. "This is part of his penance for all his bad-boy activity when he was young."

The film earned more than $159 million worldwide as well as Academy Awards for best picture and director – and it marked Clint's farewell to the Western genre.

At 62, Clint appeared ready to bid adieu to his wild-oat sowing as well, settling down with Unforgiven costar Frances Fisher and doting on their daughter, Francesca.

After her 1993 birth, "he became the person I knew was in him," Fisher said. "I'd be nursing the baby, and he'd be feeding me so I could hold the baby."

Yet Clint went back to his old ways.

"Some women can overlook their partner's occasional infidelities," Fisher said. "Not me. I didn't want my daughter growing up seeing her mother stifled. So I decided to leave."

Clint moved on with Dina Ruiz, a TV reporter 35 years his junior; they wed in 1996. "She's the one I've been waiting for," he said. Again, he was an attentive dad to their daughter, Morgan.

"Clint is great at changing diapers," Ruiz cooed at the premiere of '97's Absolute Power.

His need for absolute independence, though, doomed his marriage to Ruiz, and they divorced in 2014.

"The women he's married expect him to be a normal husband," Eliot said.

"Come home, what's for dinner, how are the kids, let's go on vacation. None of that is in Clint's playbook."