Warren Beatty Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Even the promiscuous feel pain.

Government is not show business.

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

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

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

You know, you left without saying good-bye. That's not like you, not that I have the slightest idea what you're like.

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.

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

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

You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.

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

Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.

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

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

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

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