Warren Beatty Quotes

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

  Warren Beatty

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

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Warren Beatty

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

  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

• 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

• 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

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

  Warren Beatty

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

  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

• 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

• 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

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

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• 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

• 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

Warren Beatty (29)

Birth:	30th March, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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