Warren Beatty Quotes
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Quotes to Explore
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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The prevailing view was that girls were outside of school because of the resistance of families to their education. But when I visited a local village, what everyone told me - the chiefs, the parents, the children - was that girls weren't in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.
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But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.
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You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.
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My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
