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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

" It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 have been famous for a long time. "

" I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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

" Art is truth. "

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

" Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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