Beatty Quotes - Page 2

• When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Years, Lunch, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Couple, Years, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Warren's Beatty] first film being with this very important director [Elia Kazan], I think we related on that in a big way. And I just was genuinely curious about his experiences in film, and about the people he knew.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know what to do with Warren Beatty. All I know is that he wasn't attracted to me. That's all right.

  Elaine Stritch

  Knows

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Warren [Beatty] did a very cool thing, where he directs in character.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Character, Very Cool, Cool Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Warren [Beatty] was very adamant and very encouraging of me to direct. It's definitely something that I'd like to pursue more in the future.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Adamant, Pursue, Direct

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I watched a few of Warren Beatty films when I was growing up...my Dad loved 'Heaven Can Wait.'

  Lily Collins

  Growing Up, Dad, Waiting

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him.

  Lily Collins

  Watches, Actresses, Scene

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Could I see him acting as Warren Beatty directed, and what would that be like? When you see him as those characters, once you get to know him, there is so much of him in them. In fact, I saw so much of him in them that it made me laugh.

  Lily Collins

  Character, Laughing, Acting

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Years, Two, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I love Stroker Ace. I love the whole team. Jim Nabors really stole the show, and Ned Beatty, well I've made more of my movies with Ned Beatty than anybody else.

  Burt Reynolds

  Team, Aces, Made

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't Apply.' It's set in the time when Warren [Beatty] came to Hollywood, and when he did that first film.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Hollywood, Pieces, Firsts

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• [Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.'

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Splendor, Comedic, Puritanism

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My wife always says that I will be stuck with this forever: I am the difficult one. With Jack Nicholson they always said it was drugs. Warren Beatty is supposed to have screwed everything that jumped off the curve. I'll tell you, in reality a few of us had as many girls as Warren.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Girl, Reality, Curves

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• I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Movie Love, Goes On, Lists

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

  Ben Affleck

  Mistake, Directors, Actors

  "Oscar Watch: Why Affleck's 'Argo' Hits the Zeitgeist, Early Reviews" by Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Blow, Bangs

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Wanted

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• Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs

  Leslie Caron

  Dog, Lovers, Hell

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• Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

  Peter Biskind

  Marriage, Wedding, Noon

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• Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.

  Courtney Love

  Careers, Interest

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• Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

  Val Kilmer

  Next, Stuck, Ifs

  "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview With Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.

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• Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!

  John Hay Beith

  Home, Army, Sea

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• If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Reincarnation, Fingertips

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• I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

  Colin Firth

  Birthday, Girlfriend, Thinking

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