120 Quotes by Warren Beatty

I’m not going to call a dog “Dog.” I suppose if she were a baby you’d cal her “Person.”

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.

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.

I don’t think you should talk while the movie was going on and say, ‘Oh, look at that – look how smart I was’ or ‘What a brilliant shot that is!’ I don’t believe in that.

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I’ve made, I say to myself, ‘Oh God, why did I do this?’ and ‘Why didn’t I change that?’ and things like that.

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

I don’t think there’s anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

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 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.