Warren Beatty

“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.”

“Art is truth.”

“I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview.”

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

“I think I've been lucky enough not to have to do movie after movie after movie for financial reasons, so I've been able to live life and also make movies. I didn't have to grind them out. I could go long periods where I was living life rather than tripping over cables.”

“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.”

“The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.”

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

“I sometimes feel I have met everyone he ever met, but I never met him. I am afraid to say I have always been - the word I would have to use is - amused by Howard Hughes.”

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

“I was studying with Stella Adler, who was a great, great teacher who encouraged me to be an actor. I had thought I would just write or direct or whatever. I wasn't thinking very much of Hollywood. I was thinking only of the legitimate theatre. But then I changed.”

“When I came to Hollywood, I would take the opportunity to get to know George Stevens or Willy Wyler or Billy Wilder or Freddie Zinnemann. David Lean I got to know, of course, in London. And David Selznick and Darryl Zanuck, not to mention Jack Warner, and Sam Goldwyn was actually very, very nice to me.”

“I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

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

“I don't want to be mushy about it, but having four kids is definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me, and each kid is, to me, more fascinating than any five movies.”