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

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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. "

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

" The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Art is truth. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm slow at everything I do. "