If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!
People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.
Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.
I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.
I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.
I respect a woman too much to marry her.
People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.
I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.
I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.
I love being verbal in films.
I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.
People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.
There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.
Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.
Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.
I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.
A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.
You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.
I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.
I just fight in my movies, never in real life.
There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant.
Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.
I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.
The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.