Warren Beatty Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. — Warren Beatty
I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
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
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. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. — Warren Beatty
There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing. — Warren Beatty
By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son's son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along. — Warren Beatty
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema. — Warren Beatty
Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch. — Warren Beatty
Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse. — Warren Beatty
In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards. — Warren Beatty
Even the promiscuous feel pain. — Warren Beatty
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. — Warren Beatty
Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow. — Warren Beatty
Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer. — Warren Beatty
You know, you left without saying good-bye. That's not like you, not that I have the slightest idea what you're like. — Warren Beatty
It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that. — Warren Beatty
That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America. — Warren Beatty
There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie. — Warren Beatty
Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law. — Warren Beatty
I'm not going to call a dog "Dog." I suppose if she were a baby you'd cal her "Person." — Warren Beatty
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.' — Warren Beatty
Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with. — Warren Beatty
I don't think you should talk while the movie was going on and say, 'Oh, look at that - look how smart I was' or 'What a brilliant shot that is!' I don't believe in that. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that. — Warren Beatty
For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. — Warren Beatty
I believe that DVD is that which gives some hope to retaining some content in movies that will appeal to an older audience or the more sophisticated audience or the audience that doesn't need or desire to see a movie on a Friday night. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
Government is not show business. — Warren Beatty
Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake. — Warren Beatty
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. — Warren Beatty
I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out. — Warren Beatty