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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" Art is truth. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "