I love Thanksgiving turkey; it’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Money doesn’t make you happy. I have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Nixon was always being attacked sexually. It was always said that he was a fag and that he had no sexual relations with his wife for 15 years and that was why he liked power. And Hitler had only one ball, and that was why he wanted to conquer the world.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There’s really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry – you have to want to succeed.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Hasta la vista, baby!
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator 2
I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the Mr. Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Oliva and Lou Ferrigno.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
What is best in life: Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Conan the Barbarian
One of the things they teach you in acting is to be engaged, to go inside and not to just speak words, but actually mean to get through to the people and actually to communicate. The same is in politics. You can’t just go out and blabber words out to the wall, as if no one is standing there. You’ve got to penetrate and get people into your world, so to speak, and there is an art to do that.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Well, I am very happy with myself and I am pretty much the happiest guy around. I have made mistakes in life that I regret, but I would say that when it comes to career and those kind of things, I would not change anything.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Your clothes, give them to me! Now!
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator
I live to see you eat that contract, but I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I’m going to ram it into your stomach and break your god-damn spine.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Running Man
I will go back to what I have always done, which is promote health and fitness and bodybuilding. And I also did movies and ran my businesses in real estate and other investments, I will go back to that. Almost like Cincinnatus when he was in charge, when he ruled Rome, after he was finished with his challenges he went back to farming. I think there is something attractive about that, going back to your original work and so I think that’s what I am going to
do, continue doing that.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I have inhaled, exhaled everything.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Anyway, my fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the State of California and then stand here… then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the President of the United States – that is an immigrant’s dream. It is the American dream.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Being the highest paid actor, after Terminator 3… so it was a huge success for someone, that they said, you could never, ever become a leading man, because they said your body is too big, you have an accent and a name that no one can pronounce. What is this? Like Schwatizee, Schnizel, something like that. So they said it can’t be done and I was very proud to get to that point.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me any way. I hope it never will.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Priest that drinks. Can’t be all bad.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, End of Days
My instinct is to win, eliminate anyone who is in the competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Don’t watch television and sit and complain and say, “Look at this guy, and this and that, look how businesses are, look how corrupt this is.” Go in there, jump into politics, campaign and become one of them. And then create changes within, and that is tremendous power and that’s the power each and every one of you has. You don’t have to necessarily run for politics, you can be a leader and have tremendous power otherwise.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
My team always works alone, you know that.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Predator
I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
But I think the big step for me was Conan the Barbarian, because it was the first time the studio invested 20 million dollars, which in today’s terms would be 150 million dollars or something like that, because it was back in 1979-1980.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I don’t understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I’ve made four movies in Mexico.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Predator
I was not allowed to do comedy because I was so, I made so much money for the studio in action movies, that they said why would we spend money on a comedy, when we give him an action movie, we can make more money. So I literally said that I would work for free, you don’t have to pay me anything.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive. But to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Crom! I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. That’s what’s important! Valor pleases you, Crom; so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to hell with you!
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Conan the Barbarian
From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they’re taxed. Then they go and get the cup of coffee, they’re taxed. This goes on all day long. Tax, tax, tax.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I don’t know what the problem is, but I’m sure it can be solved without resorting to violence.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Twins
The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
You’re a funny guy, Sully. I like you. That’s why I’m going to kill you last.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Commando
Obviously, I’ve made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that’s the way I always was.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I eat green Berets for breakfast, and right now, I’m very hungry.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Commando
Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I get laid on purpose. I can’t sleep before a competition and I’m up all night, anyway, so instead of staring at the ceiling I figure I might as well find somebody and fuck… we had girls backstage giving head, then all of us went out and I won. It didn’t bother me at all – in fact, I went out there feeling like King Kong.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s – the gym in Venice, California, where all the top
guys train there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger