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
Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.
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.
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.
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.
I knew Reagan and I was a friend of Reagan. I disagreed with many, many things that Reagan stood for, but I don't think that Reagan would have handled things this way. Well, Reagan did raise taxes when he had to and Reagan was never disrespectful to the legislature.
It's something that you never take off the table; that would be sort of a demonstration of poor citizenship. The answer is I don't know and the truth is that I don't want to do it.
I know you have asked and I've turned you down.
I'm not sure two movie stars can run - not even here.
Oh, I guess it's selfishness. I can make a movie when I want to. I don't need to work as a hired actor. I produce, I write, I direct. I guess I like it.
Arnold says he's not in this for the short run. We have to show him - neither are we!
You have to look inside these Trojan horses and see what is really there. They are deceptively named, and they are not what they appear to be on the outside.
To me, it's a misuse of the initiative process, ... It's a clear device to circumvent the Legislature and spend a lot of money on oversimplified descriptions of these propositions and hope that the Trojan horses, (which) each of these are, will deceive a bored and not well-enough-informed public into staying home or vote in a way that is against their own best interest.
I've always preferred not to run for public office, and I still do, ... Run, Warren, run!
You're talking about a man that taught me more than anybody else did about how to make movies.