Perhaps the most memorable part of that day with Schwarzenegger occurred when we took an hour for lunch. I had my reporters notebook out and was asking questions for the story while we ate. At one point I casually asked him, Now that you have retired from bodybuilding, what are you going to do next? And with a voice as calm as if he were telling me about some mundane travel plans, he said, Im going to be the number-one box-office star in all of Hollywood. Mind you, this was not the slim, aerobic Arnold we know today. This man was pumped up and huge. And so for my own physical sense of well-being, I tried to appear to find his goal reasonable. I tried not to show my shock and amusement at his plan. After all, his first attempt at movies didnt promise much. And his Austrian accent and awkward monstrous build didnt suggest instant acceptance by movie audiences. I finally managed to match his calm demeanor, and I asked him just how he planned to become Hollywoods top star. Its the same process I used in bodybuilding, he explained. What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true. It sounded ridiculously simple. Too simple to mean anything. But I wrote it down. And I never forgot it. Ill never forget the moment when some entertainment TV show was saying that box office receipts from his second Terminator movie had made him the most popular box office draw in the world
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:18:17 +0000
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