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" Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation. "

Warren Beatty

Same

Aging

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" I would say that I wasn't so much afraid of marriage as afraid of divorce. "

" You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. "

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

" Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me. "

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" When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star. "

" 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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" I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.' "

" I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money. "

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

" When I came to Hollywood, I would take the opportunity to get to know George Stevens or Willy Wyler or Billy Wilder or Freddie Zinnemann. David Lean I got to know, of course, in London. And David Selznick and Darryl Zanuck, not to mention Jack Warner, and Sam Goldwyn was actually very, very nice to me. "

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

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

" When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "