I am a major shoe queen.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2003 source ↗
The question
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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I am a major shoe queen.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2003 source ↗
A saxophone for £8,000.
Antiques and art – I collect 17th‑century portraits.
An ornate carved pool table. With travelling, I’ve not had a game on it in two years.
My piano, a boudoir grand. I’ve played since I was six.
From a heart attack at the Kodak Theatre when they announce I won best actor for Terminator 3.
My mother-in-law, Eunice Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics, and my father-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who founded Job Corps and was the first director of the Peace Corps.
It became such a big part of my life that even when I sleep in past 6 o'clock in the morning, I feel guilty because I hear my father's voice saying, you know, Arnold, that's not how this country was built, by sleeping in. Be useful. Do something. What are you doing now?
I am petrified of bikini waxing. I had a very bad experience in 1978.
My father would make sure that I knew what it meant. Just to give you an example, I started bodybuilding with the age of 15, and my father would say, why are you lifting these dumbbells and barbells? Don't you think it would be better to just go out and chop some wood and shovel some coal for some poor people that don't have anyone? Therefore you would get muscles. But at the same time, you're doing something useful. You're doing something for somebody rather than just for yourself and looking in a mirror at yourself and stuff like that. So he would make sure that you knew what being useful meant.
I think I value the same things everyone does—loyalty, a sense of humor, the ability to make campaign contributions.
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