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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Arnold Schwarzenegger Became a Movie Star Using the Same Philosophy That Made Him a Body Building Champion · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Before Ronald Schwartzeneger was
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  Speaker 1: the biggest movie star of the nineteen eighties. He was
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  Speaker 1: the most successful bodybuilder of all time, dominating the sport
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen seventies as a five time Mister Universe
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  Speaker 1: and seven time Mister Olympia, which relied on discipline and
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  Speaker 1: repetition to build up his physique, and when he began
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  Speaker 1: to transition in acting, he used that same philosophy to
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  Speaker 1: show up to set on day one with the entire
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  Speaker 1: screenplay memorized front to back. He tells Variety, I studied
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  Speaker 1: the script from month and I hired someone to read
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  Speaker 1: the parts with me. We rehearsed, We did reps. It's
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  Speaker 1: from bodybuilding reps, reps, reps, and more reps you do,
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  Speaker 1: the better you get. It also comes from old Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: The director Billy Wilder always said, I didn't hire you interpreters.
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  Speaker 1: I hired actors. The old directors were fanatics. They would say,
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  Speaker 1: study your dialogue and hit the mark. Arnold says he
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  Speaker 1: also set a goal to eventually get paid the one
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  Speaker 1: million dollars that stars like Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson
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  Speaker 1: were commanding at the time for a role. Only a
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  Speaker 1: few years later, Arnold was earning thirty million a picture
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  Speaker 1: that's direct from Hollywood.