Warren Beatty Quotes

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Warren Beatty

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 30, 1937

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

Warren Beatty

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.

Warren Beatty

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

Warren Beatty

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

Warren Beatty

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

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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.

Warren Beatty

I left Northwestern University after a year and was in New York playing piano in a little bar on 58th Street, and I didn't know whether to go back.

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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.'

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

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

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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

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.

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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.

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For years, Warner Bros. was trying to get me to make a movie about Howard Hughes.

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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.

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

Warren Beatty

Government is not show business.

Warren Beatty

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

Warren Beatty