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I'm slow at everything I do.
Even the promiscuous feel pain.
Government is not show business.
Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.
That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
Character is plot, and casting is character.
You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.
Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me.
Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.
I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.
I actually knew Adlai Stevenson and Jack and Bobby Kennedy.
I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.
There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?'
There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.
Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
The highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
I would say that I wasn't so much afraid of marriage as afraid of divorce.
I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything.
For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.
For years, Warner Bros. was trying to get me to make a movie about Howard Hughes.
I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see.
I'm not going to call a dog "Dog." I suppose if she were a baby you'd cal her "Person."
Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.
When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.
I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview.
Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.
The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.
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.
I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.
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.
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.'
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.