Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.

I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken.

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

Men seem to think that page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

'Sexy' doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

If you Google me, you'll find plenty of 'dumb blonde' references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me.

I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.

I had a stereotype in my mind of what a 'Star Trek' fans is, but I couldn't have been more wrong.

I've heard people say to me, 'How can you claim to be a feminist when you dress like that?' I wear a lot of slip dresses and nightwear and stuff. People always question my credibility because of that: 'Oh, are you selling sex? Are you doing this or that to be recognized more or to sell your music?' No, it's just a fashion thing for me.

People only go by looks. If you have big breasts it doesn't mean that you are dumb.

People who think they know me would be surprised that my whole life doesn't revolve around sex.

I get the Playboy thing a lot. People assume I go out with bimbos. I couldn't go out with bimbos if I tried! I scare them off! The women that like me are smart. So I go to the Playboy Mansion four or five times a year, but people think I go all the time.

I like 'em big. And stupid. Don't tell my husband.

I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.