Arnold Schwarzenegger

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 (26 September, 2006) ., 2006

I found a new me. 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 Cowboys & Indians, the "magazine of the west" (September 2004)., 2004

Why not? With my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top.

On 60 Minutes, when asked whether he favors amending the U.S. Constitution to allow naturalized citizens (such as himself) to run for president. (31 October 2004)., 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

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: ‘Don’t be economic girlie men!’

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

I play the Terminator, but you guys are the true terminators.

To American soldiers stationed in Iraq (2003), as quoted in Fox News (2003)., 2003

I don't worry about it, because I never took an overdosage. (1987)

1987

I was 15 years old and I looked in the mirror. I was standing there in front of the mirror, totally naked. There was one particular part of my body that was bigger than the rest of it. I'm a man of perfection, and so I said to myself, 'I've got to bring the rest of the body up to the standard of this one part.' And so that's when I started exercising. Very simple.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, 4 October 1984, 1984

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. When you make an impasse passable, that is strength. But you must have ego, the kind of ego which makes you think of yourself in terms of superlatives. You must want to be the greatest. We are all starved for compliments. So we do things that get positive feedback.

From a 1982 interview with Boston Globe journalist Marian Christy. Christy, Marian. "Winning according to Schwarzenegger." Boston Globe: Boston, MA. 9 May 1982: p 51. Accessed 25 Jun 2016., 1982

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.

1977

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.

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. (1977)

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.

1977

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. (1974)

1974