He was a body builder and he had done Conan and he was not considered an actor by any long stretch of the imagination. Most people thought he wouldn’t have a career because he could never really speak English and say things like “California” very well. Nobody really thought he was going to have much of a career.
So it was like “Okay, Arnold is in it. Alright, well… what’s it about?” “It’s about a robot that comes back from the future to kill a girl who works at a Bob’s Big Boy and you play a character who comes back to try to stop this robot from killing this girl.” I’m thinking to myself “Okay, well… Robot… Time Travel… Okay, well who’s directing it?” “Jim Cameron.” “Okay, well what’s he directed?” “He was directing Piranha 2, but he got fired. He’s worked a lot with Roger Corman...”
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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