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" 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. "

Warren Beatty

California

Say

People

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

" When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit. "

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

" And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful. "

" 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

Kid

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm slow at everything I do. "

Warren Beatty

Slow

Everything

" Government is not show business. "

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

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

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

Warren Beatty

Marriage

Talent

" Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me. "

Warren Beatty

Subject

Invented

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

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

" 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. "

Warren Beatty

Silly

Book

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Warren Beatty

Said

Nothing

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

Warren Beatty

Relationship

Level

" 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. "

" 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. "