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

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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. "

" I was studying with Stella Adler, who was a great, great teacher who encouraged me to be an actor. I had thought I would just write or direct or whatever. I wasn't thinking very much of Hollywood. I was thinking only of the legitimate theatre. But then I changed. "

" I sometimes feel I have met everyone he ever met, but I never met him. I am afraid to say I have always been - the word I would have to use is - amused by Howard Hughes. "

" 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.' "

" 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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" 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. "

" The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Art is truth. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema. "

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

" 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. "

" Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. "

" I'm slow at everything I do. "

" 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. "