Warren Beatty Quotes

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

Time, Hate, Giving

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

Age, Change, Wife

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

Success, Work, Play

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

Marriage, Special, Acting

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

Money, Job, Small

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

Opinion, Service, Able

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

Friends, Said, Once

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

Together, Rich, Union

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.
Warren Beatty

Friend, Rich, Sometimes

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.
Warren Beatty

Success, Women, Men

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.
Warren Beatty

Between, Public, Private

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

Mistake, Call, Arnold

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.
Warren Beatty

Children, Same, Here

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
Warren Beatty

Money, Giving, Republican

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

Excitement, Level, Highest

Government is not show business.
Warren Beatty

Government, Business, Show

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

Good, Put, Service

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

Vote, Public, Republican

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

Politics, Said, Vote

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

Movies, Fun, Cancer

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

Money, Mother, Father

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

Old, Gone, Hollywood

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

Republican, Says, Definition

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

Making, Point, Movie

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Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: March 30, 1937

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