Quotes by Arnold:
"The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing into your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and it's really tight and it's like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic. It's as satisfying to me as cumming is, you know, as in having sex with a woman and cumming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like getting the feeling of cumming in the gym; I'm getting the feeling of cumming at home; I'm getting the feeling of cumming backstage; when I pump up, when I pose out in front of 5000 people I get the same feeling, so I am cumming day and night. It's terrific, right? So you know, I am in heaven."
"I believe that gay marriage should be reserved for a man and a woman."
— Response when asked as California Governor if he would sign a gay marriage bill note
"I'll be back."
— One of his iconic catch phrases. It originated in The Terminator.
"I have a message to the Neo-Nazis, the White Nationalists and the neo-Confederates. Let me be just as blunt as possible: Your heroes are losers. You’re supporting a lost cause. Believe me, I know the original Nazis. I was born in Austria in 1947, shortly after the Second World War, and growing up I was surrounded by broken men, men who came home from the war filled with shrapnel and guilt, men who were misled into a losing ideology. And I can tell you that these ghosts that you idolize spent the rest of their lives living in shame. And right now, they’re resting in Hell."
— Part of a public statement he made after the White Supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
"Now, I grew up in the ruins of a country that suffered the loss of its democracy. I was born in 1947, two years after the Second World War. Growing up, I was surrounded by broken men drinking away the guilt over their participation in the most evil regime in history. Not all of them were rabid antisemites or Nazis; many just went along, step-by-step, down the road. They were the people next door. Now, I've never shared this so publicly because it is a painful memory, but my father would come home drunk once or twice a week, and he would scream and hit us and scare my mother. I didn't hold him totally responsible because our neighbor was doing the same thing to his family, and so was the next neighbor over. I heard it with my own ears and saw it with my own eyes. They were in physical pain from the shrapnel in their bodies and in emotional pain from what they saw or did."
— Part of a Twitter video condemning the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
Quotes about Arnold:
"How can anyone not like this guy? He's a commercial puppet, yet a personal icon. He beats the crap out of people, yet has a heart of gold. He's a horrible actor, but by God, he's trying. We all love you Arnold. No matter how good, or bad, your movies are."
"And there shall come unto you a muscular man from a foreign land to the East. And to some he shall be a barbarian. And to others, a destroyer. But to all, he shall be...a TERMINATOR! And though thall shalt laugh at his accent, thou shalt never laugh at his comedies. Yay, even though in one, he giveth birth."
— Prophet, Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show!
