Warren Beatty Net Worth

Warren Beatty's Quotes

• [on his attitude toward movie promotion] In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards.
• Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.
• Lenin [V.I. Lenin] said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
• I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.
• Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Interesting Facts about Warren Beatty

1. His political views expounded by the "new" Jay Bulworth in the movie Bulworth (1998) are really his own.
2. He and older sister Shirley MacLaine attended Washington-Lee HS (as did Sandra Bullock).
3. Attended Northwestern University but dropped out after one year. Member Sigma Chi fraternity.
4. In his prime, Warren was almost as famous for his love life as he was for his movie-making, having been connected with a galaxy of female stars and starlets, a who's who list reported to include (in alphabetical order): Tracey Adams, Isabelle Adjani, Barbara Allen, Carol Alt, Eve Babitz, Diane Baker, Brigitte Bardot, Jaid Barrymore, Justine Bateman, Candice Bergen, Sallie Blair, Colleen Brennan, Bebe Buell, Maria Callas, Claudia Cardinale, Judy Carne, Leslie Caron, Cher, Greta Chi, Julie Christie, Connie Chung, Marina Cicogna, Pat Cleveland, Joan Collins, Janice Dickinson, Vikki Dougan, Nancy Dussault, Carole Eastman, Samantha Eggar, Britt Ekland, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Morgan Fairchild, Jane Fonda, Charlene Gehm, Sandra Grant, Germaine Greer, Melanie Griffith, Dayle Haddon, Daryl Hannah, Barbara Harris, Goldie Hawn, Brooke Hayward, Joey Heatherton, Lillian Hellman, Christa Helm, Margaux Hemingway, Barbara Hershey, Elizabeth Hubbard, Lauren Hutton, Joyce Hyser, Iman, Kate Jackson, Bianca Jagger, Christine Kaufmann, Diane Keaton, Christine Keeler, Jacqueline Kennedy, Carole King, Bitten Knudsen, Sylvia Kristel, Diane Ladd, Jennifer Lee Pryor, Vivien Leigh, Tsipi Levine, Charlotte Lewis, Ali MacGraw, Elle Macpherson, Madonna, Phyllis Major, Carole Mallory, Princess Margaret, Diane McBain, Linda McCartney, Kelly McGillis, Marisa Mell, Robin Menken, Barbara Minty, Laura Misch Owens, Joni Mitchell, Sharon Mitchell, Constance Money, Mary Tyler Moore, Stacey Nelkin, Christina Onassis, Bernadette Peters, Michelle Phillips, Maya Plisetskaya, Juliet Prowse, Jeanne Rainer, Suze Randall, Vanessa Redgrave, Anne Reid, Diana Ross, Adrianne Sachs, Jessica Savitch, Diane Sawyer, Jean Seberg, Edie Sedgwick, Serena, Stephanie Seymour, Cynthia Sikes, Carly Simon, Lori Singer, Susan Sontag, Inger Stevens, Stella Stevens, Alexandra Stewart, Susan Strasberg, Barbra Streisand, Annette Stroyberg, Dewi Sukarno, Twiggy, Kathleen Tynan, Liv Ullmann, Mamie Van Doren, Vanity, Diane von Fürstenberg, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Raquel Welch, Lana Wood and Natalie Wood. Notorious for his alleged "love 'em and leave 'em" treatment of many of these women, an aging Beatty had the tables turned on him by sultry supermodel Seymour, who unceremoniously dropped Warren in February 1991 to pursue Axl Rose of the rock band Guns N' Roses. Soon after that, he settled down with Annette Bening and they've been together ever since.
5. He is the godfather of Steven Bauer and Melanie Griffith's son, Alexander.
6. Was the first choice to play Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but he turned it down.
7. Was originally cast as the president in Mars Attacks! (1996).
8. Was the first choice to play the lead in The Way We Were (1973).
9. Received ten offers of football scholarship after graduating from high school. He turned them all down.
10. Lives on famed "Bad Boy Drive" a.k.a. Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills, CA. Nicknamed so because its famed residents are bad boy actors Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, and Beatty.
11. Is allergic to oysters.
12. Uncle of actress Sachi Parker.
13. Turned down the role of Bill in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) because of the violent nature of the movie.
14. Tested for the role of Tony in West Side Story (1961).
15. Rumored to have been the subject of Carly Simon's 1972 #1 hit single "You're So Vain." After 43 years of speculation, Simon finally confirmed in 2015 that the second verse of the song refers to Beatty. "Warren thinks the whole thing is about him!" she said.
16. He has a photographic memory for phone numbers. He can dial a touch tone phone using the same hand technique as telephone operators.
17. In the films he produces, he usually plays characters who lose something important by the end of the film.
18. Recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, along with Elton John, Joan Sutherland, John Williams, and Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.
19. Based his Shampoo (1975) character "George Roundy" on celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring.
20. Was an advisor on George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign.