Warren Beatty Quotes

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

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

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

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

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

You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

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.

Government is not show business.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

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.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

The highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

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.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

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.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

Even the promiscuous feel pain.

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.

To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

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