Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beattyis an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds. Beatty is the first and only person to have been twice nominated for acting in, directing, writing and producing the same film – first with Heaven Can Wait, and again with Reds...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth30 March 1937
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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.
Government is not show business.
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.
Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.
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.
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.
There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything.
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.
The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.
There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.
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.