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" 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

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" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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