Warren Beatty Quotes

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

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• I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Business
  • Career

• My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Fiercer

• If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • You
  • Violence
  • Jail

• I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Children
  • Man

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Important
  • Roles
  • Most

• Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Giving
  • Choices

• Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Father

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Create
  • Break

• I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Think
  • Sick
  • Then

• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Women
  • History

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • World
  • Thought
  • Enough

• It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.

  

  Jim Nabors
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Know

• I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Believe
  • Want

• When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Children
  • Future
  • Humanity

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

  

  Warren Beatty
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