Warren Beatty Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.
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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.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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The highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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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.
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Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.
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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.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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Even the promiscuous feel pain.
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I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything.
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.
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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.
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I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.
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Government is not show business.
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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.
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Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.
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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.
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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.
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The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.
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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.
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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.
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When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
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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.
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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.
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