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" Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes. "

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" If I had done some of the movies that I was offered as an actor - and very good movies, by the way, and some of them big moneymakers - I don't know that I ever would have taken what was the concentration or the time to do the movies that I produced. 'Reds' is a good example, but 'Shampoo' is also an example, and so was 'Heaven Can Wait.' "

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" By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don't describe a song before you sing it or tell about a painting before you show it. You don't reveal the recipe before you serve the dish. You taste it. "

" There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things. "

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" Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics. "

" I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that seems silly enough or weird enough to get remarked upon, and it's pretty much all fiction. "

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" I don't want to be mushy about it, but having four kids is definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me, and each kid is, to me, more fascinating than any five movies. "

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" There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie. "

" It's hard to misquote someone who doesn't say anything. "

" Government is not show business. "

" I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does. "

" I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview. "

" And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union. "

" To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together. "

" The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican. "

" I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to. "

" For years, Warner Bros. was trying to get me to make a movie about Howard Hughes. "

" To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily. "

" It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives. "

" That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood. "

" When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America. "

" I actually knew Adlai Stevenson and Jack and Bobby Kennedy. "

" Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity. "

" I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone. "

" Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer. "

" I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service. "

" You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?' "

" Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake. "

" I think I've been lucky enough not to have to do movie after movie after movie for financial reasons, so I've been able to live life and also make movies. I didn't have to grind them out. I could go long periods where I was living life rather than tripping over cables. "

" And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful. "

" But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites. "