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" 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. "

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" I have been famous for a long time. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich. "

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

" 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. "

" Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "