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Over the seven years of being
governor of California, I gave up
maybe $200 million from potential
movies roles and spent $40 million
or so of my own money on funding
election campaigns and other
propositions.
Dieter Rauter [Arnold’s movie
stand-in and close friend] is
very good to his mother...he
never goes home.
I saw the film See Arnold Run [the
2005 movie with Roland Kickinger
playing the young Arnold and Jürgen
Prochnow playing the modern-day
Arnold], and it upset me. What does
it say for my acting? I mean, this is
a movie about me, and they didn’t
even ask me to play me.
Political courage is not
political suicide.
Money doesn’t make you happy. I
now have $50 million, but I was just
as happy when I had $48 million.
For Expendables 2 [starring Arnold,
Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis,
Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph
Lundgren, Chuck Norris, and
Jean-Claude Van Damme], they
rounded up every action star
between the ages of 30 and 100.
I’m always interested in new ideas.
I’m like a sponge ready to absorb
any information. I’m hungry for
knowledge. I’m hungry for the
experience of doing new things.
I am a person who hates to look
back. I only want to look forward.
I only want to move forward.
I don’t want to pinch myself too hard,
because I don’t want to wake up and
find the whole thing was really a
dream. Can you imagine? I wake up at
5 a.m. and someone is shaking me
saying, “Komm, Arnold, Zeit für Ihre
Schicht im Stahlwerk!” [Translation:
“Come on, Arnold, time for your shift
at the steel mill.”]
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