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Warren Beatty Biography

Henry Warren Beatty[a] (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981). Aside from Orson Welles for Citizen Kane, Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again with Reds.

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It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

Feel Good, Made, Old Movie, Say, See, Things

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

Buy, Cows, Mean, Needs, Whole

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

Gone, Hollywood, Old, Old Hollywood

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.

Actors, Office, President, Reagan, Ronald

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

Jobs, Money, Organized Labor, People, Pooling, Rich

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

Arnold, Beatty, Call, Call Me, Mistake, Spokesman

Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.

Ideas, Loopholes, Oil, Reform, Years

Even the promiscuous feel pain.

Feels, Hurt, Pain, Promiscuous

I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.

Baptist, Father, Mother, Southern, Teacher

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

Beatty, Making, Movie, No Point, Point

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.

Camel, Camels, Depth, Giving, Ride, Snowstorm

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.

Admired, Cheating, Lying, Stake, Thinking

You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.

Nothing, Settle, Settling

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.

Commitment, Life, Passionate, People, Real, Same

The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.

Fun, Golden, Oscars

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

Law, Marx, Thinking, Trust, Upstairs

It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

Clear, Engage, Engagement, Issues, Pushing

I always feel that I'm sort of co-directing with my fellow actors. And you can tell when something's going on that really interests them and they approve of. And then you can sort of tell when there's not.

Actors, Feels, Interest, Interests, Sort

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

Lack, Public, Safety, School, Teacher, Teachers

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

America, Heart, Mass, Media, Minds

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