One, two, three - bing, bang, boom! I found my passion. I had my role model! If he could do it, I could do it! I'd win Mr. Universe title in bodybuilding, and parlayed that into a movie career - then took the money and built a gym empire. It turned out that Hercules was an English guy who'd won the Mr. Universe Now Starring In Hercules Movie.' I bought that magazine. The cover showed a muscle man in an ancient warrior costume, posing like this. But me - I wanted to find my own passion - something I could excel in - be great in! One day, I saw a magazine in a store window. My mother wanted me to go to trade school. My father had wanted me to be a police officer like he was. My own plan formed when I was 14 years old. In 2001, he said during a speech at Sacramento Metro Chamber's annual "Perspectives" event: Having established his fame as a bodybuilder, Schwarzenegger made an early play for movie stardom when he appeared as the titular Conan the Barbarian in a 1982 film based on a series of fantasy-themed short stories by author Robert E. He started bodybuilding at 15 and at 17, began his competitive career. Arnold Schwarzenegger gives a cautious update on prospects for Conan the Barbarian 3 still happening. In his NPR interview, he said, "I was involved in so many different sports, trying to search what it is that I'm good at because I always felt like it's through athletics I could get out of the country and become somebody." Eventually, he found his way to bodybuilding, and it inspired him. Growing up, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a good athlete. it was really horrible." This made an impact on young Arnold and inspired him to "get out of that village and become the best in something."īodybuilding Was Arnold's Way Out Of Poverty It was really my mother had to go out and beg for food when she went from farm to farm and beg for food. In an interview with NPR, Schwarzenegger said, "And we lived in this little house, and there was no food. Related: Eraser Reborn Trailer Gives First Look a Schwarzenegger Action Movie Reboot The Schwarzenegger family did not have electricity or hot water in their home. if we did something bad, or we disobeyed our parents, the rod was not spared." The family was poor, and in the years after the end of World War II endured food shortages and riots. He said, "Back then in Austria, it was a very different world. Schwarzenegger's parents were very strict. His dad was the local chief of police and in 1938 joined the Nazi Party and the SA (the Sturmabteilung), serving as a military policeman during World War II. Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, in Thal, Austria to Gustav and Aurelia Schwarzenegger.
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