Quotes from Warren Beatty

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

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.'

By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don't describe a song before you sing it or tell about a painting before you show it. You don't reveal the recipe before you serve the dish. You taste it.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview.

Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me.

I'm slow at everything I do.

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.

I actually knew Adlai Stevenson and Jack and Bobby Kennedy.

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

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

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.