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
I don't know if I will run, ... interestingly, politically, you have a kind of tactical advantage when you don't know. Because other people know. They have plans. They have exploratory committees. ... So when you don't know you have flexibility.
I know you have asked and I've turned you down.
But I made... ah, several pictures and then it got to the point where I would have to make a good picture or get myself into trouble.
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!
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.
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.
Even the promiscuous feel pain.
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.
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.
In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards.
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.
I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son's son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along.