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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. "
Warren Beatty
Movies
Me
Kid
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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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" 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.' "
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" I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview. "
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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. "
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" That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake. "
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" 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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" Government is not show business. "
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Business
Government
Show
" There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie. "
Warren Beatty
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Making
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" 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. "
Warren Beatty
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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. "
Warren Beatty
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Dumb
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" Art is truth. "
Warren Beatty
Art
Truth
" 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
" You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. "
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Play
Work
Doing
" Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me. "
Warren Beatty
Subject
Invented
Me
" 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. "
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People
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" Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer. "
Warren Beatty
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Cure
Cancer
" I'm slow at everything I do. "
Warren Beatty
Slow
Everything
" 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. "
Warren Beatty
Politics
Said
Vote
" I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to. "
Warren Beatty
Job
Want
Movies
" I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see. "
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People
Own
Know
" 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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" 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. "
Warren Beatty
Financial
Life
Live
" For years, Warner Bros. was trying to get me to make a movie about Howard Hughes. "
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Bros
Years
Trying
" 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
" I actually knew Adlai Stevenson and Jack and Bobby Kennedy. "
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Actually
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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.' "
Warren Beatty
Good
Wait
Time