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.

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

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

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

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.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

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.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

Government is not show business.

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.

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

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.

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.

Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.

You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.

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.

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.

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

The highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

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.

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

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.

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 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.

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.

I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.

Even the promiscuous feel pain.

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

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

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

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.

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

I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

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

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.

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything.

I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.

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.

Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.