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Warren Beatty Quotes

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Warren Beatty at the 1990 Academy Awards
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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.
Warren Beatty

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.
Warren Beatty

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
Warren Beatty

Government is not show business.
Warren Beatty

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they’re giving you an enema.
Warren Beatty

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.
Warren Beatty

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.
Warren Beatty

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

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.’
Warren Beatty

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.
Warren Beatty

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

Movies are fun, but they’re not a cure for cancer.
Warren Beatty

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.
Warren Beatty

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

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