In many ways, Arnold Schwarzenegger has built a career on being a man of very few words. Many fans don’t realize just how few those words are: In the first Terminator movie, the titular killing machine has only 18 lines, which comes to fewer than 100 words.
Financially, though, this worked out for the actor. With his relatively low salary of $750,000 for The Terminator, Arnold was still raking in about $7,500 per word. That salary jumped to $15 million for Terminator 2, and Arnold’s word count jumped up to 700 words. That means, though, that his iconic line from that movie—“hasta la vista, baby”—was worth $85,716 on its own! If that’s not mind-boggling enough, one of his commands to John Connor in the movie—“Go!”—was worth $21,429.
Given the increasing dollar-to-word ratio, it’s easy to see why Arnold had no problem living up to his promise of being back for future movies.
The 1984 film The Terminator wasn’t the blockbuster we think of when we look back at it now, because it takes time and hindsight for a movie to become a classic. But it performed better than expected by the makers made money and it established a franchise that now seems so familiar to us all.
The success of The Terminator sent Schwarzenegger’s Hollywood career into high gear. In the next ten years, he starred in ten action films and several comedies. The biggest of them all was Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which he again played a terminator, but this time he was the good guy. Schwarzenegger played a similar cyborg in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and is set to reprise the role in Terminator: Genisys. Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger married NBC journalist Maria Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family, in 1986. They were married for 25 years and had four children together. In 2003, Schwarzenegger entered the special recall election to replace California governor Gray Davis. He defeated over 100 other candidates on the ballot to became the governor of California. He was re-elected in 2006. Schwarzenegger’s stint in politics earned him the title of “The Governator.”
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