How did the man who is best known for his portrayal of a cybernetic assassin in The Terminator become the governor of the state of California? What made him able to go from bodybuilding to acting, and from Hollywood to working in public service? Rewinding even further, what made him decide to leave his birthplace of Austria and relocate to the United States of America?
Well, you can get quick answers to these questions by reading Schwarzenegger’s book, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life (2023), which is published by Penguin Random House. In the book, the actor discusses how his own values and beliefs were influenced by his father.
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2
He shared how his father’s voice would often nudge him to put in extra effort and aim high. For the uninformed, his father was a member of the Nazi Party during World War II.
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Well, you can get quick answers to these questions by reading Schwarzenegger’s book, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life (2023), which is published by Penguin Random House. In the book, the actor discusses how his own values and beliefs were influenced by his father.
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2
He shared how his father’s voice would often nudge him to put in extra effort and aim high. For the uninformed, his father was a member of the Nazi Party during World War II.
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- 3/4/2024
- by Siddhika Prajapati
- FandomWire
At a time when antisemitism is rising throughout the United States, Hollywood icon and former professional bodybuilder and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger – an Austrian native whose father Gustav Schwarzenegger was a Nazi soldier in Austria during World War II – is being honored by Holocaust Museum LA with its inaugural Award of Courage during the group’s 15th annual gala Monday night (November 6) at the Beverly Hills Hotel. He will be presented the award by Oscar-nominated producer Mike Medavoy and will be joined by a dozen octogenarian, nonagenarian and centenarian Holocaust survivors.
Schwarzenegger, an Emmy winner who has been a vocal opponent of antisemitism and hate speech for many years, was greatly moved last year by a visit to the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, Poland and posted a lengthy video last March on his YouTube page, In the video, he spoke directly to those who are “at the crossroads” of...
Schwarzenegger, an Emmy winner who has been a vocal opponent of antisemitism and hate speech for many years, was greatly moved last year by a visit to the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, Poland and posted a lengthy video last March on his YouTube page, In the video, he spoke directly to those who are “at the crossroads” of...
- 11/4/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up in a small town in Austria, and the actor said his difficult childhood actually helped to shape his personality. In his new motivational book, ‘Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life’, excerpts of which have been shared with People, Arnoldexplains: “My mother was very loving. My father was strict, and he could be physically abusive, but I loved him very much. It was complicated.”
He shared that he thinksa lot about how different his life could have been if he“wasn’t a positive person, if I’d responded differently to my upbringing in Thal. I didn’t have a hot shower or regular meat in my diet until l left for the army as a teenager,” reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The actor said: “My daily morning routine involved fetching water and chopping firewood, which was brutal in the wintertime and earned me exactly zero sympathy from my father,...
He shared that he thinksa lot about how different his life could have been if he“wasn’t a positive person, if I’d responded differently to my upbringing in Thal. I didn’t have a hot shower or regular meat in my diet until l left for the army as a teenager,” reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The actor said: “My daily morning routine involved fetching water and chopping firewood, which was brutal in the wintertime and earned me exactly zero sympathy from my father,...
- 9/28/2023
- by Agency News Desk
Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up in a small town in Austria, and the actor said his difficult childhood actually helped to shape his personality. In his new motivational book, ‘Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life’, excerpts of which have been shared with People, Arnoldexplains: “My mother was very loving. My father was strict, and he could be physically abusive, but I loved him very much. It was complicated.”
He shared that he thinksa lot about how different his life could have been if he“wasn’t a positive person, if I’d responded differently to my upbringing in Thal. I didn’t have a hot shower or regular meat in my diet until l left for the army as a teenager,” reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The actor said: “My daily morning routine involved fetching water and chopping firewood, which was brutal in the wintertime and earned me exactly zero sympathy from my father,...
He shared that he thinksa lot about how different his life could have been if he“wasn’t a positive person, if I’d responded differently to my upbringing in Thal. I didn’t have a hot shower or regular meat in my diet until l left for the army as a teenager,” reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The actor said: “My daily morning routine involved fetching water and chopping firewood, which was brutal in the wintertime and earned me exactly zero sympathy from my father,...
- 9/28/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
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