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Over the seven years of being<br />
governor of California, I gave up<br />
maybe $200 million from potential<br />
movies roles and spent $40 million<br />
or so of my own money on funding<br />
election campaigns and other<br />
propositions.<br />
Dieter Rauter [Arnold’s movie<br />
stand-in and close friend] is<br />
very good to his mother...he<br />
never goes home.<br />
I saw the film See Arnold Run [the<br />
2005 movie with Roland Kickinger<br />
playing the young Arnold and Jürgen<br />
Prochnow playing the modern-day<br />
Arnold], and it upset me. What does<br />
it say for my acting? I mean, this is<br />
a movie about me, and they didn’t<br />
even ask me to play me.<br />
Political courage is not<br />
political suicide.<br />
Money doesn’t make you happy. I<br />
now have $50 million, but I was just<br />
as happy when I had $48 million.<br />
For Expendables 2 [starring Arnold,<br />
Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis,<br />
Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph<br />
Lundgren, Chuck Norris, and<br />
Jean-Claude Van Damme], they<br />
rounded up every action star<br />
between the ages of 30 and 100.<br />
I’m always interested in new ideas.<br />
I’m like a sponge ready to absorb<br />
any information. I’m hungry for<br />
knowledge. I’m hungry for the<br />
experience of doing new things.<br />
I am a person who hates to look<br />
back. I only want to look forward.<br />
I only want to move forward.<br />
I don’t want to pinch myself too hard,<br />
because I don’t want to wake up and<br />
find the whole thing was really a<br />
dream. Can you imagine? I wake up at<br />
5 a.m. and someone is shaking me<br />
saying, “Komm, Arnold, Zeit für Ihre<br />
Schicht im Stahlwerk!” [Translation:<br />
“Come on, Arnold, time for your shift<br />
at the steel mill.”]<br />
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PHOTO BY ROBERT REIFF WITH ORIGINAL IMAGE FOR CUTOUT COURTESY OF WEIDER HEALTH & FITNESS<br />
140 FLEX | JULY/AUG ’17