Warren Beatty

“I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood.”

“I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just a storyteller, that's all. I'm not a politician.”

“For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.”

“If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of public opinion, you can do anything.”

“A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.”

“You've had a long life, and you've left a long trail of stories. You've been mythologized.”

“Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.”

“My feeling is that if you can be open with your audience, you have a better time.”

“I feel that I've been very fortunate in that I've been able to make the movies that I've wanted to make.”

“It's more fun to be the subject of a story than to be the writer of a story.”

“I'd always felt that one could be as radical in politics and in public life as he could be on the stage.”

“Basically, I'm a writer. I'm a storyteller. It's what I do.”

“I like to do one thing at a time. I've been that way since I was a little boy.”

“The more things you do, the more you can do.”

“Hollywood is a factory. You have to realize that.”

“I don't like to be told what to do.”

“I've been a liberal Democrat all my life.”

“When you're a celebrity, you're a public commodity. You're an open book.”