Whata great introduction, what a wonderful thing. What a great, great welcome I'mgetting here, so thank u very much. I mean, I haven't heard applause like thatsince I announced that I was going to stop acting.
But anyway, it’s really terrific to seehere so many graduate students and undergraduate students graduating here today.I heard that there are 4500 graduating here today, undergraduate students, sothis is fantastic. There are 2200 men 2300 women and 5 have listed urselves asundecided.
So this is really a great, great bunchof people here, I love it. But seriously, President Sample, trustees, faculty,family, friends and graduates, it is a tremendous privilege to stand before uthis morning. There's nothing that I enjoy more than celebrating greatachievements. I don't just mean urparents celebrating never having to pay another tuition bill, that's not whatI'm talking about.
I'm talking about just celebrating thegreat accomplishment. So let me congratulate the Trojan class of 2009 on urgraduation from one of the finest universities in the world. Let's give ourgraduates a tremendous round of applause. What a special day, what a greataccomplishment.
Now, this an equally special day, ofcourse, for the parents, for the grandparents, siblings and other familymembers whose support made all of this today possible. let's not forget, of course, the professors,those dedicated individuals who taught u, who came up with exciting ways toshare their vast wisdom, knowledge and experience with u.
I must also say thank u to President Samplefor honoring me with this fantastic degree. Thank u very much. Wow, ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Doctor of Humane Letters. I love it. But, of course, I noticedthat it wasn't a doctorate in film or in cinema or in acting. I wonder why?
But anyway, that's OK. I take whateverI can get. But maybe now since I'm the doctor, I can go back up to Sacramentoand maybe now the Legislature will finally listen to me. But anyway, I standbefore u today not just as Dr. Schwarzenegger or as Governor Schwarzenegger, oras The Terminator, or as Conan the Barbarian, but also as a proud new member ofthis Trojan family.
"Just remember, u can't climb theladder of success with ur hands in ur pockets."
Now, some of u may know that my daughter just completed herfreshman year right here. One of the most exciting things for me has been tolearn about the great traditions that make this university so wonderful and sospecial.
My daughter told me all about, forinstance, the Victory Bell. She sat me down and she told me it weighs 295pounds and how the winner of the annual football game between USC and UCLAtakes this bell and gets to paint it in the school colors. I stopped her in the middle of talking, Isaid, "Wait a minute, Katherine, back up a little bit. UCLA has a footballteam?"
Now, of course, my daughter's journeyhere at USC is just beginning, and urs is ending. I know that u're a little bitstressed out right now as u start this exciting new chapter in ur lives. Somepeople say it is scary to leave the comfort of the university and to go outinto the cold, hard world.
But I have to tell u something; I thinkthis is a bunch of nonsense because after all, this is America. This is thegreatest country on earth, with the greatest opportunities. It is one thing if uwere born in Afghanistan or in Swat Valley in Pakistan where u'd be forced tojoin the Taliban or be killed. Now, then I would say yes, that is a little bitscary.
But this, this is going to be a pieceof cake for u, trust me. U live in America and u're prepared for the futurewith this tremendous education u have gotten here at one of the greatestuniversities in the world. This is going to be exciting, it's a great adventureand this is a new phase in ur life. This is going to be awesome.
Now, of course, this journey is notgoing to be without any setbacks, failures or disappointments. That's just theway life is. But u're ready and u are able, and u would not be here today with urdegrees and with ur honors if u wouldn't be ready.
So now, of course, to help u along theway, I thought that the best Schwarzenegger gift I could give u today is togive u a few of my own personal ideas on how to be successful. parents, I just want u to know, maybe u shouldclose ur ears, u should plug ur ears, because maybe there a few things that umaybe won't like in what I have to say.
But anyway, I can explain how I becamesuccessful and who I am today by going through what I call Dr. Schwarzenegger'sSix Rules of Success.
Now, of course, people ask me all thetime, they say to me, "What is the secret to success?" I give them always the short version. I say,"Number one, come to America. Number two, work ur butt off. NO.3, marry a Kennedy."
But anyway, those are the short rules.Now today, I'm going to give u the six rules of success. But before I start, Ijust wanted to say these are my rules. I think that they can apply to anyone,but that is for u to decide, because not everyone is the same. There are somepeople that just like to kick back and coast through life and others want to bevery intense and want to be number one and want to be successful. that's like me.
I always wanted to be very intense, Ialways wanted to be number one. I took it very seriously, my career. So thiswas the same when I started with bodybuilding. I didn't want to just be abodybuilding champion, I wanted to be the best bodybuilder of all time. Thesame was in the movies. I didn't want to just be a movie star; I wanted to be agreat movie star that is the highest paid movie star and have above-the-titlebilling.
so this intensity always paid off for me, thiscommitment always paid off for me. So here are some of the rules.
The 1st rule is: Trust urself
what I mean by that is, so many ung people aregetting so much advice from their parents and from their teachers and fromeveryone. But what is most important is that u have to dig deep down, dig deepdown and ask urselves, who do u want to be? Not what, but who.
I'm talking about not what ur parents andteachers want u to be, but u. I’m talking about figuring out for urselves whatmakes u happy, no matter how crazy it may sound to other people.
I was lucky growing up because I didnot have television or didn't have telephones, I didn't have the computers andthe iPods. Of course, Twitter was then something that birds did outside thewindow. I didn't have all these distractions and all this.
I spent a lot of time by myself, so Icould figure out and listen to what is inside my heart and inside my head.
I recognized very quickly that inside my headand heart were a burning desire to leave my small village in Austria -- notthat there was something wrong with Austria, it's a beautiful country. But Iwanted to leave that little place and I wanted to be part of something big, theUnited States of America, a powerful nation, the place where dreams can cometrue.
I knew when I came over here I couldrealize my dreams. I decided that thebest way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion,because I knew that was ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of myidol, Reg Park. He was Mr. Universe, he was starring in Hercules movies, helooked strong and powerful, he was so confident.
So when I found out how he got that wayI became obsessed, and I went home and I said to my family, "I want to bea bodybuilding champion."
Now, u can imagine how that went overin my home in Austria. My parents, they couldn't believe it. They would havebeen just happy if I would have become a police officer like my father, ormarried someone like Heidi, had a bunch of kids and ran around like the vonTrapp family in Sound of Music.
That's what my family had in mind forme, but something else burned inside me. Something burned inside me. I wantedto be different; I was determined to be unique. I was driven to think big andto dream big. Everyone else thought that I was crazy. My friends said, "Ifu want to be a champion in a sport, why don't u go and become a bicyclechampion or a skiing champion or a soccer champion? Those are the Austriansports."
But I didn't care. I wanted to be a bodybuildingchampion and use that to come to America, and use that to go into the moviesand make millions of dollars. So, of course, for extra motivation I read bookson strongmen and on bodybuilding and looked at magazines. One of the things Idid was, I decorated my bedroom wall.
Right next to my bed there was this bigwall that I decorated all with pictures. I hung up pictures of strongmen andbodybuilders and wrestlers and boxers and so on. I was so excited about this great decorationthat I took my mother to the bedroom and I showed her. she shook her head. She was absolutely inshock and tears started running down her eyes.
she called the doctor, she called our housedoctor and she brought him in and she explained to him, "There's somethingwrong here." She looked at the wall with the doctor and she said,"Where did I go wrong? I mean, all of Arnold's friends have pictures onthe wall of girls, and Arnold has all these men.
But it's not just men, they're halfnaked and they're oiled up with baby oil. What is going on here? Where did I gowrong?" So u can imagine, the doctor shook his head and he said,"There's nothing wrong. At this age u have idols and u go and have those-- this is just quite normal."
So this is rule number one. I wanted tobecome a champion; I was on a mission. So rule number one is, of course, trust urself,no matter how and what anyone else thinks.
Rule NO. 2 is: Break the rules
. We have so many rules in life abouteverything. I say break the rules. Not the law, but break the rules. My wifehas a t-shirt that says, "Well-behaved women rarely make history."Well, u know, I don't want to burst her bubble, but the same is true with men.
It is impossible to be a maverick or atrue original if u're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. Uhave to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is thepoint of being on this earth if all u want to do is be liked by everyone andavoid trouble?
The only way that I ever got anyplacewas by breaking some of the rules. After all, I remember that after I wasfinished with my bodybuilding career I wanted to get into acting and I wantedto be a star in films. U can imagine what the agents said when I went to meetall those agents. Everyone had the same line, that it can't be done, the rulesare different here. They said, "Look at ur body. U have this hugemonstrous body, overly developed. That doesn't fit into the movies. U don'tunderstand.
This was 20 years ago, the Herculesmovies. Now the little guys are in, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen, JackNicholson." Before he gained weight, of course, that is. But anyway, thoseare the guys that were in. The agents also complained about my accent. Theysaid, "No one ever became a star with an accent like that, especially notwith a German accent.
yes, I can imagine with ur name, ArnoldSchwartzenschnitzel, or whatever the name, is, on a billboard. Yeah, that'sgoing to draw a lot of tickets and sell a lot of tickets. Yeah, right." Sothis is the kind of negative attitude they had.
But I didn't listen to those rules,even though they were very nice and they said, "Look, we can get u somebit parts. We can get u to be playing a wrestler or a bouncer. Oh, maybe with urGerman accent we can get u to be a Nazi officer in Hogan's Heroes or somethinglike that."
But I didn't listen to all this. Thosewere their rules, not my rules. I was convinced I could do it if I worked ashard as I did in bodybuilding, five hours a day. I started getting to work, I started takingacting classes. I took English classes, took speech classes, dialogue classes.Accent removal classes I even took.
I remember running around saying,"A fine wine grows on the vine." U see, because Germans have difficultieswith the F and the W and V, so, "A fine wine grows on the vine." Iknow what some of u are now saying, is I hope that Arnold got his money back.
But let me tell u something, I had agood time doing those things and it really helped me. finally I broke through. I broke through and Istarted getting the first parts in TV; Streets of San Francisco, Lucille Ballhired me, I made Pumping Iron, Stay Hungry. then I got the big break in Conan theBarbarian. there the director said, "If we wouldn't haveSchwarzenegger, we would have to build one." Now, think about that. then, when I did Terminator, "I'll beback," became one of the most famous lines in movie history, all becauseof my crazy accent.
Now, think about it. The things thatthe agents said would be totally a detriment and would make it impossible forme to get a job, all of a sudden became an asset for me, all of those things,my accent, my body and everything.
So it just shows to u, never listen tothat u can't do something. , "U have to work ur way up, of course, run forsomething else first." I mean, it was the same when I ran for governor,the same lines, that u have to work ur way up, it can't be done. then, of course, I ran for governor and therest, of course, is history.
They said u have to start with a smalljob as mayor and then as assemblyman and then as lieutenant governor and thenas governor. And they said that's the way it works in a political career. Isaid, "I'm not interested in a political career. I want to be a publicservant. I want to fix California's problems and bring people together andbring the parties together.
So, like I said, I decided to run, Ididn't pay attention to the rules. Imade it and the rest is history. Which, of course, brings me to
Rule NO. 3: Don't be afraid to fail.
Anything I've ever attempted, I wasalways willing to fail. In the movie business, I remember, that u pick scripts.Many times u think this is a wining script, but then, of course, u find outlater on, when u do the movie, that it didn't work and the movie goes in thetoilet.
Now, we have seen my movies; I mean,Red Sonja, Hercules in New York, Last Action Hero. Those movies went in thetoilet. But that's OK, because at the same time I made movies like Terminatorand Conan and True Lies and Predator and Twins that went through the roof.
So u can't always win, but don't afraidof making decisions.
U can't be paralyzed by fear of failureor u will never push urself. U keep pushing because u believe in urself and in urvision and u know that it is the right thing to do, and success will come. Sodon't be afraid to fail.
Rule NO. 4: Don’t listen to the naysayers.
How many times have u heard that ucan't do this and u can't do that and it's never been done before? Just imagineif Bill Gates had quit when people said it can't be done.
I hear this all the time. As a matterof fact, I love it when someone says that no one has ever done this before,because then when I do it that means that I'm the first one that has done it.So pay no attention to the people that say it can't be done.
I remember my mother-in-law, EuniceKennedy Shriver, when she started Special Olympics in 1968 people said that itwould not work. The experts, the doctors that specialized in mentaldisabilities and mental retardation said, "It can't be done. U can't bringpeople out of their institutions. U can't make them participate in sports, injumping and swimming and in running. They will hurt themselves, they will hurteach other, they will drown in the pool."
Well, let me tell u something. Now 40years later Special Olympics is one of the greatest organizations, in 164countries, dedicated to people with mental disabilities and that areintellectually challenged.
she did not take no for an answer. the same is when u look at Barack Obama. Imean, imagine, if he would have listened. If he would have listened to thenaysayers he would have never run for president. People said it couldn't bedone, that he couldn't get elected, that he couldn’t beat Hillary Clinton, thathe would never win the general election.
But he followed his own heart, hedidn’t listen to the "U can't," and he changed the course of Americanhistory.
So over and over u see that. If I wouldhave listened to the naysayers I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.I would never have come to America. I would have never met my wonderful wifeMaria Shriver, I would have never had the wonderful four kids, I would havenever done Terminator, and I wouldn't be standing here in front of u today asgovernor of the greatest state of the greatest country in the world.
So I never listen that, "Ucan't." I always listen to myself and say, "Yes, u can."
that brings me to rule number five, which is the mostimportant rule of all: Work ur butt off. U never want to fail because u didn'twork hard enough. I never wanted to lose acompetition or lose an election because I didn't work hard enough. I alwaysbelieved leaving no stone unturned.
That's what makes u a champion. ArnoldScvhwarzenegger in Kindergarten CopAnd that's the way it is with everything. Nopain, no gain. So many of those lessons that I apply in life I have learnedfrom sports, let me tell u, and especially that one. let me tell u, it is important to have fun inlife, of course. But when u're out there partying, horsing around, someoneout there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter andsomeone is winning. Just remember that. Now, if u want to coast through life,don't pay attention to any of those rules.
But if u want to win, there isabsolutely no way around hard, hard work.
My father-in-law, Sargent Shriver --who is a great American, a truly great American who started the Peace Corps,the Job Corps, Legal Aid to the Poor -- he said at Yale University to thestudents at a commencement speech, "Tear down that mirror. Tear down thatmirror that makes u always look at urself, and u will be able to look beyondthat mirror and u will see the millions of people that need ur help."
let me tell u something, reaching out andhelping people will bring u more satisfaction than anything else u have everdone. As a matter of fact today, after having worked for Special Olympics andhaving started After School Programs, I've promoted fitness, and now with myjob as governor, I can tell u, playing a game of chess with an eight-year-oldkid in an inner city school is far more exciting for me than walking downanother red carpet or a movie premiere.
So let me tell u, as u prepare to gooff into the world, remember those six rules:
Trust urself, Break some rules, Don'tbe afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give somethingback.
now let me leave u with one final thought, andI will be brief, I promise. This university was conceived in 1880, back whenLos Angeles was just a small frontier town. One hundred and twenty-five classesof Trojans have gone before u. They have sat there, exactly where u sit today,in good times and in bad, in times of war and in times of peace, in times of greatpromise and in times of great uncertainty.
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