Warren Beatty Quotes

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.

You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.

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.

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 not going to call a dog "Dog." I suppose if she were a baby you'd cal her "Person."

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

Government is not show business.

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.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

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

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.

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.

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.

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.

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

The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.

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.

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.

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.

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.