Warren Beatty Quotes (44 Quotes)

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.

Oh, I guess it's selfishness. I can make a movie when I want to. I don't need to work as a hired actor. I produce, I write, I direct. I guess I like it.

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.

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

I would say the biggest changes -- it has caused me to get into the present tense, try not to go too far into the future, not too long into the past, ... When (the kids) are jumping on your stomach, making a trampoline out of you at six in the morning, that's fun for me. That's present tense.

To me, it's a misuse of the initiative process, ... It's a clear device to circumvent the Legislature and spend a lot of money on oversimplified descriptions of these propositions and hope that the Trojan horses, (which) each of these are, will deceive a bored and not well-enough-informed public into staying home or vote in a way that is against their own best interest.

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

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

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

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

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

You're talking about a man that taught me more than anybody else did about how to make movies.

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

Government is not show business.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It's something that you never take off the table that would be sort of a demonstration of poor citizenship. The answer is I don't know and the truth is that I don't want to do it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Most of us were so shocked by his death because we figured if anyone had it wired to live to 110 or 125, it was Stanley.

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.

I knew Reagan and I was a friend of Reagan. I disagreed with many, many things that Reagan stood for, but I don't think that Reagan would have handled things this way. Well, Reagan did raise taxes when he had to and Reagan was never disrespectful to the legislature.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

But I made... ah, several pictures and then it got to the point where I would have to make a good picture or get myself into trouble.

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.

I don't know if I will run, ... interestingly, politically, you have a kind of tactical advantage when you don't know. Because other people know. They have plans. They have exploratory committees. ... So when you don't know you have flexibility.

so I can't say enough positive things about Kazan. I would leave it at that. I love the man.

In an acceptance litany -- thank you for encouraging me for using my voice in public affairs ... I'll try to do better.

It's no secret that I am a liberal Democrat, ... I have some very strong feelings, the most important of which at the moment is campaign finance reform because its tentacles reach into every other issue. I fear we're getting closer to a plutocracy than we want to, and I believe that deep down the people want to do something about that.

You and your tireless organizing have stood up to the arrogance of power and money and bullying and insulting disrespect of public servants and representative government and given this administration the massive enema it deserves.

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

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.

In the disparity of our prosperity, someone must rise to honor the historic mission of the Democratic Party. Why not Bradley Why not Gore Why not now