Latest Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm not a person that thinks back in the first place. I think forward. And it's always been less that people didn't get the character, but more people being mad that the movie fell short. Or people would say they are glad the movie went in the toilet. And I totally agree with them. I think there are some movies I made that it was a good thing they went into the toilet, because they weren't good enough. The director f - -ed up, or the production was too small, or I screwed up, whatever the reasons are.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing is if they want the party to stop. If they want everyone to go home. Immediately.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Party, Home, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I think this is exactly where the action is, is in the middle. I have seen it when I was governor of the state of California. I have seen it firsthand, that the only way we brought Democrats and Republicans together, we could really solve very important issues. I remember that's how we really started rebuilding California and invested $60 billion in infrastructure.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, California, Issues

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• There's one thing that I've liked over the years when I've promoted bodybuilding and fitness and my movies and politics and issues and so on is to stay focused.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Bodybuilding, Years, Issues

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• I think it is important that we go and bring both of the parties together. The more we go to the left, the more we go to the right, I believe of what President Eisenhower said, "Politics is like the road. The left and the right represents the gutter, and the middle is drivable."

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Party, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• I comfortably can say that I am a Republican and I always will be a Republican because the Republican party is a big tent and there was not always things that I agreed with or they didn't agree with me many times. But the fact of the matter is that's the philosophy, and everything that I've heard is exactly the same.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Philosophy, Party, Matter

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• 69 percent of the people want our politicians to work together. And I think this should be a message to Democrats and Republicans to work together. And this is why people are very upset about Washington today.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, People, Upset

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, I said, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican."

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Military, Party, Government

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Sometimes you do know, in 'Commando' when I said 'I lied', I knew that it was going to be a funny line. I've never had a bad line.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Lines, Sometimes, Lied

  Source: screenrant.com

• In acting class they tell you that you have to be real, connect with the people, connect with your partner. The same as politics, you have to connect to the people.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Real, Class, People

  Source: screenrant.com

• When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Careers, Should

  Source: daggy.name

• I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

• I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn't bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping that bodybuilders are: People have certain misconceptions about them just as they do about us.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fighting, Gay, People

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

• Men shouldn't feel like fags just because they want to have nice-looking bodies.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Nice, Men, Body

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

• When I was playing soccer at the age of 14, the first thing we'd do before going out onto the field would be to climb up on one another's thighs and massage the legs; it was a regular thing. None of us had a thought of being gay, absolutely not, and it's the same with most bodybuilders.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Soccer, Gay, Age

  Source: daggy.name

• I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Example, Bottles, Half

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• I make my protein drink with whiskey. People think I'm crazy, but that's the way I am. I get stoned, I do my own thing.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: daggy.name

• Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Insecure, Going Out, Looks

  Source: daggy.name

• I'm a competitive bodybuilder; I'm not training just to be healthy. Ninety-five percent of the people training with weights are into this health thing, and it's a different mentality entirely.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  People, Healthy, Training

  Source: daggy.name

• The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious. Many in California are punks, beach bums just lying around in the sun and maybe collecting unemployment.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Beach, Lying, Gay

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

• The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Moving, Definitions

  Source: daggy.name

• There are bodybuilders who are afraid of indulging in sex or even of playing other sports for fear of harming their bodies. I think that's silly. What's the use of building your body if you don't use it?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Sex, Silly

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

• If you feel that something's going to affect your body, then it definitely will. I've always found that sex gives me a kind of calm, and I'm much more in control because of it. It's the same for friends of mine who are also top bodybuilders.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sex, Giving, Body

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

• Ninety percent of the people don't realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they're not aware that it's the body, something they should be in tune with.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, People, Tunes

  Source: daggy.name

• If you're in touch with your body, you certainly have an enormous sexual advantage. The mind-body connection is the same in sex as it is in training.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sex, Training, Mind

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.