Warren Beatty
1937-|
Biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, USA Warren Beatty Quotes
“I called Jack and said, ‘I need someone to play Eugene O’Neill and it’s got to be somebody who leaves no doubt that he could take Diane Keaton away from me.’ He said, ‘Well, you have no choice!’”“When I fly into Europe, it’s embarrassing for me to put ‘actor’ on my landing card.” “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.” “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.’” “Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.” “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.” “I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.” “Movies are fun, but they’re not a cure for cancer.” “There’s no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.” “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.” “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.” “When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.” “Hollwood is a place where you can make an entire career out of baloney.” “That’s all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.” “This image people have of Warren Beatty bears no resemblance to me. It’s amazing. It’s nice. But it’s rubbish.” “In a way, I’d rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I’d rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards.” “You love somebody once, you love them forever - only maybe not as much as the next person.” “I have no intention of getting married. To me, marriage is essentially a contract and there are so many loopholes in it that Wilbur Mills and the entire Ways and Means Committee couldn’t figure it out.” “My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.” “How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they’re giving you an enema.” “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.” “What, after all, is money? Can you eat it, drink it - make love with it?” “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.” “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.” “Government is not show business.” “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.” “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.” “The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he’s a Schwarzenegger Republican.” “I know that movie stars are over-rewarded in our society and that the press has to cut people like me down to size. So they make me into an insane eccentric with an incredible fear of losing my youth, who lives in a bomb shelter, who contemplates or is going through plastic surgery, who has devastating relationships with women. It goes through cycles. First, they say that women like me too much. Then, that women don’t like me at all. Then, that they like me too much again. Somewhere along the way they say I secretly like men - but then that men don’t like me! I’m old, I’m young, I’m intelligent, I’m stupid. My tides flow in and out.” “Once I became interested in stories and getting stories told, I realised I had to be a producer to get them told the right way.” “Even the promiscuous feel pain.” “I’m not what I’d call a hedonist. Just ignore what you read. I do.” “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.” “You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.” “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.” “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.” “Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.” “Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.” “For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.” “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.” “If you ever hear that I’m running for office, you’ll know that I’ve become a much more unselfish person than I am now.” “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.” “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.” “[Why did he not marry his girlfriends?:] Just because you need a quart of milk doesn’t mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.” |
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The Actor
Warren Beatty has appeared in the following films:Splendor in the Grass (1961) The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) All Fall Down (1962) Lilith (1964) Mickey One (1965) Promise Her Anything (1965) Kaleidoscope (1966) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) The Only Game in Town (1970) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) $ (1971) The Parallax View (1974) Shampoo (1975) The Fortune (1975) Heaven Can Wait (1978) Reds (1981) Ishtar (1987) Dick Tracy (1990) Bugsy (1991) Love Affair (1994) Bulworth (1998) Town and Country (2001) The Film Director
Warren Beatty directed the following films:Reds (1981) |
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