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Tim Ferriss · 2023-10-02

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thinking Big, Building Resilience, 7 Tools for Life, and More

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thinking Big, Building Resilience, 7 Tools for Life, and More

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Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

Arnold Schwarzenegger (inferred)

“That's why my book, Be Useful, I put in there — the main chapter is just "Work Your Ass Off."”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Arnold (Netflix miniseries)

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“Many people have seen the Netflix miniseries, Arnold. One of the lines, and I'm not going to get this perfectly right, that stuck out to me”— Tim Ferriss
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The Jayne Mansfield Story

“I started doing The Jayne Mansfield Story. I started doing it with Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, The Villain.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The Villain

“I started doing it with Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, The Villain. I was doing Streets of San Francisco.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The Streets of San Francisco

“Ann-Margret, The Villain. I was doing Streets of San Francisco. I was doing Stay Hungry and Pumping Iron, all in the '70s.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Stay Hungry

“I was doing Streets of San Francisco. I was doing Stay Hungry and Pumping Iron, all in the '70s.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Pumping Iron

“I was doing Stay Hungry and Pumping Iron, all in the '70s. And even with Lucille Ball, doing Happy Anniversary and Goodbye.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Happy Anniversary and Goodbye

“And even with Lucille Ball, doing Happy Anniversary and Goodbye. I did all of those kind of things.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Conan the Barbarian

“And now I've arrived, starring role in Conan the Barbarian. When John Milius saw me, he says, "If we wouldn't have Schwarzenegger, we would've had to build one."”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The Terminator

“what Jim Cameron called, "Schwarzenegger is talking like a machine. That's why it worked, like The Terminator."”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Twins

“But could you speak to Twins and what that looked like with that particular film to bet on yourself?”— Tim Ferriss
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Kindergarten Cop

“that's what deals that we did then in the future with Kindergarten Cop, we did it with Junior. It became a model that no one is going to do today anymore.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Junior

“deals that we did then in the future with Kindergarten Cop, we did it with Junior. It became a model that no one is going to do today anymore.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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End of Days

“I remember that, right after that, was a stunt in End of Days, where the woman that was possessed by the Devil takes the piano and runs it against my chest”— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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A Fistful of Dollars

“We always Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars. Clint Eastwood in [For] a Few Dollars More. Clint Eastwood in this movie”— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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For a Few Dollars More

“Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars. Clint Eastwood in [For] a Few Dollars More. Clint Eastwood in this movie, whatever it was.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger