838 Quotes by Arnold Schwarzenegger

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

Of course, now I had to show I was worthy, but I didn’t feel at all concerned. I would do whatever it took to get there. I didn’t share my feelings of pride with anybody. My style was to keep moving and not reflect too much. But it felt great.

You never want to fail because you didn’t work hard enough.

Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s – the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.

You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn’t exist.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don’t, no one else will.

I’ve heard all my life that ‘this is impossible, you can’t make’ it and ‘you’re going to fail’ but I didn’t listen to them and I made it.

We had a strict routine that nothing could change: we’d get up at six, and it would be my job or Meinhard’s to get milk from the farm door. When w were a little older and starting to play sports, exercises were added to the chores, and we had to earn our breakfast by doing sit-ups. In the afternoon, we’d finish our homework and chores, and my father would make us practice soccer no matter how bad the weather was.