Happy Birthday Arnold Schwarzenegger - Celebrate with his best one-liners
That's right, the 30th of July marks a very important time in the history of the world. Sixty-eight years ago a child was born in the tiny village of Thal in South-Eastern Austria. That child was named Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger and a legend came into being.
Thirteen years later he picked up his first barbell. Seven years after that he became Mr Universe and dominated the sport for years to come. He made his first film in 1970, played The Terminator for the first time in 1984 and by the 90s was one of the biggest movie superstars in the world. And that was before he decided to take a turn into politics.
Arnie's career so far has been incredible and inspiring and we want to celebrate his contribution to our entertainment for the last 45 years with a run down of his best one-liners - a vital part of any Schwarzenegger movie experience. So check out our list of his top five one liners below - we've tried to limit it to one per film!
Ah the 80s, a time when you could make a joke about impaling someone and sticking them to a tree. This zinger comes from 1987s Predator, one of the best action films of the decade and home to so much testosterone you can almost smell it coming off the screen in waves!
By 1996, Arnie's star was on the wane a little, and Jingle All the Way certainly isn't one of his best, but that doesn't mean his one-liners aren't outrageous enough to be entertaining.
While out on the town trying to get his son a Turbo-Man action figure (and being pretty mean to Sinbad for some reason) he checks in at home and has a totally random conversation with Phil Hartman, who is kinda trying to steal his wife. Weird but funny!
There are so many incredible lines in 1990's Total Recall that it's hard to pick just one, but this moment when Arnie finalises his relationship with Sharon Stone is just so flip and casually cruel that it has to make the list. He's just shot someone in the face, but we're still totally rooting for the amnesiac secret-agent. Or has he been lobotomised? We'll never know for sure!
In the same year he was massacring folks on Mars in Total Recall, Arnie showed up in family fare Kindergarten Cop. Which is actually way more violent than you remember and kicks off in the style of a gritty cop thriller. But pretty soon there are cute kids and antics, which includes a gag about a kid thinking a headache might be a serious brain growth. Which actually isn't that funny now that we think about it...
Commando is vintage Arnie. Released in 1985 as he was gaining attention from the success of 1984's The Terminator, it's full of biceps and violence and more biceps, as well as huge men punching a hotel room to pieces for no reason. It's very silly and kind of glorious and Alyssa Milano plays his kid! It also has a great villain death when Arnie's John Matrix (yes really) faces off against evil-doer Bennett played by Vernon Wells.
Could it be anything else? In 1984 The Terminator was a tiny independent sci-fi film from an all but unknown director and featuring a star with an impossibly thick accent as a cybernetic organism which was supposed to be able to blend in with humans. Despite being roughly six feet wide! But the film was a box office titan, spawned a franchise that is still running today and exploded the careers of James Cameron and then 37 year old Schwarzenegger. That makes this line not only significant in the context of the film and continued appeal of the character but also acted as a calling card to the industry that this Austrian actor wasn't going anywhere!
If that's not enough, check out this amazing video compilation of quips!
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