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" 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. "
Warren Beatty
Service
Believe
I Believe
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" I would say that I wasn't so much afraid of marriage as afraid of divorce. "
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" 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. "
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Public
Private
" 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. "
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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. "
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Said
Vote
" It's hard to misquote someone who doesn't say anything. "
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Who
Someone
Anything
" 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. "
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People
Rich
Accomplish
" 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. "
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People
Women
Always
" 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. "
Warren Beatty
Work
Lunch
You
" 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. "
Warren Beatty
People
Republican
Giving
" 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. "
Warren Beatty
Rich
Do The Right Thing
Friend
" 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. "
Warren Beatty
Song
People
Painting
" 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. "
Warren Beatty
Said
Nothing
Me
" I have been famous for a long time. "
Warren Beatty
Famous
Time
Long Time
" I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview. "
Warren Beatty
Interview
Street
Sometimes
" I actually knew Adlai Stevenson and Jack and Bobby Kennedy. "
Warren Beatty
Knew
Actually
Jack
" 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. "
Warren Beatty
Know
Father
Teachers
" 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. "
Warren Beatty
Great
Me
Theatre
" I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to. "
Warren Beatty
Job
Want
Movies
" I left Northwestern University after a year and was in New York playing piano in a little bar on 58th Street, and I didn't know whether to go back. "
Warren Beatty
Street
Back
Know
" I'm slow at everything I do. "
Warren Beatty
Slow
Everything
" 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.' "
Warren Beatty
Good
Wait
Time
" Art is truth. "
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Art
Truth
" I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone. "
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Someone
Had
Books
" 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. "
Warren Beatty
Movies
Me
Kid
" My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. "
Warren Beatty
Age
Wife
Two
" That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood. "
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Hollywood
Now
Gone
" For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. "
Warren Beatty
Relationship
Me
Level
" The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious. "
Warren Beatty
Conscious
Much
Smarter
" 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. "
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Know
Opportunity
Nice
" You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?' "
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Old
Asked
Hobbies