Top 350 Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “My definition of a sport is that it’s a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

252. “As governor I have seen the tremendous changes over the last few years; the amount of land that we have lost, the trees that we have lost, the homes that we have lost, lives that have been lost, and it is due to a large extent to global warming.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

253. “I think that one-liners are very important and sometimes you don’t even know when you’re making the movie that it’s going to be a great line. I remember when we did The Terminator and I came to the line “I’ll be back” I had no idea that it was going to be an important line.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

254. “I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

255. “If you have the attitude of a young person and you work like a young person and you keep your body in shape, and if you believe that you can do it, then you can actually make other people also believe that you can do it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

256. “The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can’t move freely. I don’t know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

257. “If you don’t believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you?”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

258. “We made, actually, history, because it was the first time ever that doctors could prove that a lifelong Republican has a heart.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

259. “I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

260. “Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you’re King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

261. “I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

262. “You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

263. “My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it.”

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264. “I think that if I have a chance to go back, why not just go back all the way in history to the times of the pyramids or the Roman days? I think there are so many great historic times until now that I would like to get a little peek of those periods, rather than just 1984. Why limit yourself?”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

265. “I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

266. “My kids just brought home a beautiful pumpkin, but you know what? I’m going to return it because it’s a Democratic pumpkin. It has the orange color of John Kerry’s tan, and the roundness of Teddy Kennedy.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

267. “Political courage is not political suicide.”

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268. “The Running Man is a sci-fi action story based on a novel by Stephen King, built around a nightmare vision of America in 2017 – thirty years from when we were shooting. The economy is in a depression, and the United States has become a fascist state where the government uses TV and giant screens in the neighborhoods to distract people from the fact that nobody has a job.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

269. “I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn’t bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping that bodybuilders are: People have certain misconceptions about them just as they do about us.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

270. “My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

271. “I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

272. “I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

273. “I propose that a teacher’s pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher’s employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

274. “In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

275. “And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

276. “People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

277. “In acting class they tell you that you have to be real, connect with the people, connect with your partner. The same as politics, you have to connect to the people.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

278. “Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

279. “We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

280. “All of our deeply held dreams and aspirations require us to build on our common bonds.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

281. “The public doesn’t care about figures.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

282. “I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

283. “Do you have to discipline yourself to have breakfast, lunch or dinner? Of course not; and so discipline – the usual concept of it – doesn’t apply here. I had to discipline myself to learn English, but never to train.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

284. “Because lower-back pain afflicts more than three-quarters of all Americans at some point, the sit-up is fairly universally contraindicated.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

285. “When I was playing soccer at the age of 14, the first thing we’d do before going out onto the field would be to climb up on one another’s thighs and massage the legs; it was a regular thing. None of us had a thought of being gay, absolutely not, and it’s the same with most bodybuilders.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

286. “We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

287. “If I have the chance to time travel, might as well go all out.”

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288. “What drove me to become the world’s greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

289. “The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

290. “People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She’s already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7!”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

291. “It turns out that the governor of California has more authority to name appointees than any elected official in America except the president of the United States and the mayor of Chicago. The.”

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292. “It doesn’t matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

293. “I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.”

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294. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

295. “I’ll be back always sounded a little girly to me.”

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296. “Try to keep your rest periods between sets down to a minute or less. In the first minute after a weight-training exercise you recover 72 percent of your strength, and by 3 minutes you have recovered all you are going to recover without extended rest.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

297. “I regularly buy and sell cars, but I do not buy and sell fleets.”

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298. “I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.”

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299. “Whenever I finished filming a movie, I felt my job was only half done. Every film had to be nurtured in the marketplace. You can have the greatest movie in the world, but if you don’t get it out there, if people don’t know about it, you have nothing.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

300. “Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger