Warren Beatty Quotes

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Warren Beatty

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 30, 1937

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

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

Warren Beatty

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

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

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.

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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.

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I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that seems silly enough or weird enough to get remarked upon, and it's pretty much all fiction.

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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.

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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.

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If I had done some of the movies that I was offered as an actor - and very good movies, by the way, and some of them big moneymakers - I don't know that I ever would have taken what was the concentration or the time to do the movies that I produced. 'Reds' is a good example, but 'Shampoo' is also an example, and so was 'Heaven Can Wait.'

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I have been famous for a long time.

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I'm slow at everything I do.

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You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?'

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Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.

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I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.

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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.

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I actually knew Adlai Stevenson and Jack and Bobby Kennedy.

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Art is truth.

Warren Beatty

It's hard to misquote someone who doesn't say anything.

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