Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born 30 July 1947) Austrian-American actor, Republican politician, bodybuilder, and businessman; 38th Governor of California.

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[edit] Quotations

  • "Any man loves a little hummer."
    • Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  • "I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."
    • during the California recall campaign(2003)
  • "I play the Terminator, but you guys are the true terminators."
    • to American GIs stationed in Iraq (2003) [1]
  • "We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late... The science is clear. The global warming debate is over."
    • Bill signing ceremony for California's strict anti-emissions law, September 26, 2006. [2]
  • "These kids come to me and ask, 'Hey Arnie, are you God?'. I just laugh and say 'Nice try, but keep looking.' "
Interview with BASE magazine (2005).
  • "Why not? With my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top."
On "60 Minutes", October 31 2004, when asked whether he favors amending the U.S. Constitution to allow naturalized citizens (such as himself) to run for president. [3]
  • (From Cowboys & Indians, the "magazine of the west," Sept. 2004):
"During the filming of The Terminator (1984) I asked Arnold if big-screen success could bring him as much satisfaction as body-building victories... [Arnold responded] "In sports, you learn competition means go after it, win it. And not to let anything else interfere. It's something you learn, and it sticks with you. I consider myself an expert in looking into a particular idea or goal and then going after it without anything else in mind... It's always the same kind of thing. You pick a goal, and then you just go after it, accomplish it, and get satisfaction out of that."
  • (From Cowboys & Indians, the "magazine of the west," Sept. 2004):
"Arnold has credited his wife's famously liberal parents -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics, and Sargent Shriver -- for turning his focus to public service. He vividly recalls a speech in which his father-in-law, creator of the Peace Corps, urged listeners to "break that mirror in front of you -- that mirror that only lets you look at yourself." After hearing those stirring words, Arnold says, he began to look beyond his self-centered goals. "I found a new me," he told The Associated Press. "When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this."
  • (From Fortune magazine, Aug. 2004):
"The discipline [Arnold] got growing up "would now be called child abuse," he explains in an interview at his home. "My hair was pulled. I was hit with belts. So was the kid next door, and so was the kid next door. It was just the way it was. Many of the children I've seen were broken by their parents, which was the German-Austrian mentality. Break the will. They didn't want to create an individual.... It was all about conforming. I was one who did not conform and whose will could not be broken. Therefore I became a rebel. Every time I got hit, and every time someone said, 'You can't do this,' I said, 'This is not going to be for much longer, because I'm going to move out of here... of course, I had no plan how."
  • "My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them. . . . Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."
A 1990 profile in U.S. News and World Report
  • (Tough-talking an alligator he has just wrestled and shot), "You're luggage." Eraser (1996)
  • "So I want to say to you: yes, that I have behaved badly sometimes. Yes, it is true that I was on rowdy movie sets and I have done things that were not right which I thought then was playful, but now I recognize that I have offended people. And to those people that I have offended, I want to say to them: I am deeply sorry about that, and I apologize because this is not what I'm trying to do. When I am governor, I will prove to women that I will be a champion for women. I hope you will give me the chance to prove this."
Oct 2003 At a campaign stop in San Diego

[edit] Quotes from the 2004 Republican National Convention, August 31, 2004

  • “This is like winning an Oscar!… As if I would know! Speaking of acting, one of my movies was called “True Lies.” And that’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.”
2004 RNC, August 31, 2004
  • “When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.”
2004 RNC, August 31, 2004
  • “My fellow immigrants, my fellow Americans how do you know if you are a Republican? I’ll tell you how. If you believe that government should be accountable to the people, not the people to the government, then you are a Republican! If you believe a person should be treated as an individual, not as a member of an interest group, then you are a Republican! If you believe your family knows how to spend your money better than the government does, then you are a Republican! If you believe our educational system should be held accountable for the progress of our children, then you are a Republican! If you believe this country, not the United Nations, is the best hope of democracy in the world, then you are a Republican! And, ladies and gentlemen, if you believe we must be fierce and relentless and terminate terrorism, then you are a Republican! There is another way you can tell you’re a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people, and faith in the U.S. economy.”
2004 RNC, August 31, 2004
  • “There is another way you can tell you’re a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people, and faith in the U.S. economy. To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: ‘Don’t be economic girlie men!’”
2004 RNC, August 31, 2004
  • “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.”
2004 RNC, August 31, 2004
  • “My fellow Americans, I want you to know that I believe with all my heart that America remains the great idea that inspires the world. It's a privilege to be born here. It's an honor to become a citizen here. It's a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here. Our president, George W. Bush, has worked hard to protect and preserve the American dream for all of us. And that's why I say, send him back to Washington for four more years!”
2004 RNC, August 31, 2004

[edit] Quotations from the 70s and early 80s

  • "If a girl comes on strong and says, 'I really dig your body and I want to fuck the shit out of you,' I just decide whether or not I like her. If I do take her home, I try to make sure I get just as much out of it as she does. The word exploited therefore wouldn't apply."
Oui magazine 1977 enjoy the complete interview
  • "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." — promoting bodybuilding in a 1977 interview with Oui magazine
  • "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." — from the same bodybuilding interview, Oui magazine, 1977
  • "It is as satisfying to me as coming is — you know, as having sex with a woman and coming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven?. I am, like, getting the feeling of coming in the gym. I'm getting the feeling of coming at home. I'm getting the feeling of coming backstage when I pump up. When I pose out in front of 5.000 people I get the same feeling. So I'm coming day and night." — regarding the feeling associated with bodybuilding, from the movie Pumping Iron.
  • "The guys who own the most real estate in Los Angeles are Europeans. There are people coming over from Yugoslavia with hardly any money...a friend of mine came over from Czechoslovakia in '68 and he now owns four apartment buildings. Americans are still sitting on their asses waiting for it. Europeans are hungry because we don't have that much."
Time Out, 1977
  • "What I want to do is make Americans aware that they're fucked-up when they equate everything a person does with some sexual trip. . You know, if you hold a pencil in your hand, it's a phallic symbol and you really want to hold a cock in your hand. And a football coach doesn't really want to be a coach, he likes to slap football players' asses...he's a latent homosexual. And it goes on and on and on, all the fucking time."
Time Out, 1977
  • "America is so money-oriented. (Thank God! It's always helped me!) But it has its disadvantages because the psychiatrists know their business doesn't mean a thing if there are no sick people around, and so they make everybody feel guilty. You know, all New York City is running to a psychiatrist. All America thinks it has sexual hang ups. Everybody's running to shrinks."
Time Out, 1977
  • "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."
Time Out, 1977
  • "I used to feel that women were here for one reason. Sex was simply another kind of exercise, another body function. I was convinced a girl and I couldn't communicate on equal footing because she wouldn't understand what I was doing. I didn't have time to take one girl out regularly and go through a normal high-school romance with all its phone calls and notes and squabbles. That took too much time. I needed to be in the gym. For me it was a simple matter of picking them up at the lake, and then never seeing them again."
1983 autobiography Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
  • "Eventually there was a split between my parents about me. My mother obviously knew what was going on with me and the girls my friends lined up. She never came out and said anything directly, but she let me know she was concerned. Things were different between me and my father. He assumed that when I was eighteen, I would just go into the Army and they would straighten me out. He accepted some of the things my mother condemned. He felt it was perfectly all right to make out with all the girls I could. In fact, he was proud I was dating the fast girls. He bragged about them to his friends. "Jesus Christ, you should see some of the women my son's coming up with." He was showing off, of course. But still, our whole relationship had changed because I'd established myself by winning a few trophies and now had some girls. He was particularly excited about the girls. And he liked the idea that I didn't get involved. "That's right, Arnold," he'd say, as though he'd had endless experience, "never be fooled by them." That continued to be an avenue of communication between us for a couple of years. In fact, the few nights I took girls home when I was on leave from the Army, my father was always very pleasant and would bring out a bottle of wine and a couple of glasses."
1983 autobiography Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder

[edit] On use of steroids

  • 1974. "I take steroids because they help me an extra 5 percent. Women take the (contraception) pill. They are somewhat similar. I do it under a doctor's supervision."
  • 1977: "Yes I have used them, but no, they didn't make me what I am. Anabolic steroids were helpful to me in maintaining muscle size while on a strict diet in preparation for a contest."
  • 1987: "I don't worry about it, because I never took an overdosage."
  • 1992: "In those days you didn't have to deal with the black market. You could go to your physician and just say, 'Listen, I want to gain some weight, and I want to take something.' Then the physician would say, 'Do it six weeks before competition, then it will be safe.' And that's what you would do. The dosage that was taken then versus taken now is not even 10 percent. It's probably 5 percent."
  • 1996: "I used steroids. It was a risky thing to do, but I have no regrets. It was what I had to do to compete. The danger with steroids is overusage. I only did it before a difficult competition – for two months, but not for a period of time that could harm me. And then afterward, it was over. I would stop. I have no health problems, no kidney damage or anything like that from using them."

Reference: espn.go.com/columns/farrey_tom/1655597.html

[edit] Film quotations (made in character)

  • From the 'Terminator' series; "I'll be back..."

[edit] Commando

  • "Let off some steam, Bennet"
After tearing a piece of piping from the wall and throwing it through his adversary, Bennet (an Uzi-carrying Australian villain wearing chainmail who had earlier kidnapped his daughter and just threatened to shoot Arnie "between the balls") and into a steam vent. Steam shoots through the pipe and through Bennet, prompting another timeless Schwarzenegger utterance
  • Sully: Here's twenty dollars to get some beers in Val Verde. It'll give us all a little more time with your daughter.
Henriques: Heh.
ARNIE: You're a funny man, Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last.
  • ARNIE: Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
Sully: That's right, Matrix. You did.
ARNIE: I lied.
(DROPS HIM OVER A CLIFF)
  • Cindy: What did you do with Sully?
ARNIE: I let him go.


  • Cooke: You scared motherfucker? Well you should be because this green beret is going to kick your big ass.
ARNIE: I eat green berets for breakfast. And right now I'm very hungry.
Cindy: I can't believe this macho bullshit.
  • Gen. Kirby: Leave anything for us?
ARNIE: Just bodies.

[edit] End of Days

  • "I'll tell you what I want. I want you to go to Hell."
  • (Said to the Devil Incarnate) "Oh, you want to fuck with me? You're a fucking choir boy compared to me! A CHOIR BOY!"
  • "FUUUCK (grabs Devil Incarnate) YOOOOU."

[edit] Junior

  • "My body, my choice!"
  • "Does my body disgust you?"
  • "OH SHIT!"

[edit] Kindergarten Cop

  • "It's not a tumor!"
  • "I'm the party pooper"
  • "So you eat other people's lunches? STOP IT!!!!"
  • "Stop Whining!"
  • "I'm a cop you idiot!"
  • "Who is your daddy, and what does he do?"
  • "Reading, Writing, Arithmetics!"

[edit] Predator

  • "You're one ugly mother fucker."
  • "Run! Go! GET TO THE CHOPPA!"
  • "I'm here! Kill me!"
  • "Stick around." - After forcing a huge knife not only through an enemy, but lodging it into the object behind.
  • "So you cooked up a bullshit story and dropped the rest of us in the MEATGRINDA!"
  • "Dillon! You son of a bitch
  • "Knock Knock" - After kicking door through, suprising two enemies.
  • "If it can bleed, we can kill it"

[edit] The Running Man

  • "You cold-blooded bastard, 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 goddamn spine!" The Running Man (1987)
  • "I don't do requests"
  • "That's alright, KEEP IT!"
  • "Sure I know you, you're the asshole on TV"
  • "Killian! Here is Sub-Zero! Now... Plain zero!
  • "C'mere Lightbulb".
  • "Hey Christmas Tree".
  • "Hello cutie pie. One of us is in deep trouble".

[edit] Terminator

First spoken in The Terminator (1984), it became a trademark line in many subsequent Schwarzenegger films; he often used it in his political campaigns, too.
  • "Your clothes. Give them to me. Now"
  • "Fuck you, asshole"

[edit] Terminator 2: Judgment Day

  • "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle."
Similar to the quote in the prior Terminator movie, "Your clothes. Give them to me. Now."
  • "Stay here, I'll be back."
  • "Hasta la vista, baby."

[edit] Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

  • "She'll be back"
Used as a joke, Arnold Schwarzenegger slightly changes the quote "I'll be back," and refers to a female instead in the third Terminator movie.

"Talk to the hand."

"I lied."

"I am a machine!"

[edit] Total Recall

  • "Get your ass to Mars. Get your ass to Mars. Get your ass to Mars."
  • "But I've never even been to Mars!!!"
  • "Hey Benny, SCREW YOU!" while he thrusts a mining drill through the cabin in which Benny is sitting.
  • "I've got five kids to feed" from Benny the taxi-driver. Later on he quips
  • "But I've got four kids to feed". Arnie corrects him about the number, Benny * "Oh shit man, I lied, I ain't even married!"
  • "Consider that a divorce" after he shoots Sharon Stone after she attempts to kill him, being the "recall" wife of Quaid's for the memory implant.
  • "You call this a delusion?" After showing blood stained hands having killed all of his previous work collegues
  • "...I met a woman and realized I had been playing for the wrong team." Howser to Quaid.
  • (the tyrannical ruler of Mars has shut down the flow of oxygen to a section of the city containing rebels) "Come on, Cohaagen! You got what you want. Give these people air!"

[edit] True Lies

  • To terrorist hanging by his jacket off the nose of a missile: "You're fired."
  • To various people whilst breaking a considerable number of very expensive objects: "Sorry"

[edit] Last Action Hero

  • Big Mistake!
  • Who the hell are you?!
  • The henchmen threatens Arnold with Rottweilers and snapping his fingers and asks him if he has any questions "Yeah, two of them. First, why am I wasting my time with you when I could be doing something much more dangerous? Like, rearranging my sock drawer. And two, how do you plan on snapping your fingers after I rip off both of your thumbs?"

[edit] Twins

  • (Bad Singing) Take out the papers and the trash... Yackety Yak, don't talk back!
  • "Nice meeting you. Catch you later."
  • "You are a special person too Vincent"

[edit] Unsourced

  • Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
  • You can't reason with people blinded by hate. They hate the power of the individual. They hate the progress of women. They hate the religious freedom of others. They hate the liberating breeze of democracy. But ladies and gentlemen, their hate is no match for America's decency.

[edit] Misattributed

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  • "If we get rid of the moon, women, those menstrual cycles are governed by the moon, will not get PMS. They will stop bitching and whining."

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