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

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

" I'm slow at everything I do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Art is truth. "

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

" The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious. "

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

" Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "