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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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me. "

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

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

" Art is truth. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Government is not show business. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "