The Long View.

Transcript, Larry King Live 

November 12, 2003

larry king: "Were you at all surprised? I mean, did you go to bed thinking, I'm the next governor, and . . ."

arnold schwarzenegger: "No, no, Larry. It was nothing like that."

larry king: "Did it hurt? Losing, I mean?"

arnold schwarzenegger: "I'll be totally honest with you, Larry. No."

larry king: "Not even a little bit?"

arnold schwarzenegger: "Well, okay, a little bit. I don't like to lose, as you know. I'm a competitor and I like to win the competitions. But by the end of the process, when I realized what being governor of the State of California would entail . . ."

larry king: "The scrutiny, the loss of privacy . . ."

arnold schwarzenegger: "I meant missing out on my next film, in which I play a by-the-book robot cop partnered with a crazy do-anything cop tracking down a serial-killer drug smuggler. It's called Tanglefoot and Hardpack, and I really think it takes my acting to a new level. And I have gross points from dollar one, so . . ."

larry king: "So no more politics for you, Arnold?"

arnold schwarzenegger: "Well, as you know, Larry, I never say never. But let's just say from a financial perspective, it's hard to make the numbers work. And Sacramento is so hot, really."

larry king: "From Redding, California, you're on with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hello!"

caller: "Hi. Hi, Arnold!"

arnold schwarzenegger: "Hello there."

caller: "Um . . . first I'd like to say I think your next movie sounds great."

arnold schwarzenegger: "Thank you."

caller: "Um . . . and I wanted to ask you how you think the new governor is doing?"

arnold schwarzenegger: "It's a little too early to say. I wish him well. But I would have thought Californians would want a taller governor."

larry king: "Did you know Gary Coleman, before the race? Did you two mingle at Hollywood parties?"

arnold schwarzenegger: "Please."

larry king: "And what's next? You wrap this film and then?"

arnold schwarzenegger: "On to the next. I like to keep busy, Larry, as you know. In my next picture, I play a half-robot half-cop assigned to a serial killer in a circus. It's called Banjo and the Magic Man. And the best part is, I'm getting a producer credit and a piece of the subsidiary rights."

larry king: "Tomorrow night, Tony Danza and Kofi Annan!"

Transcript, The Today Show

December 8, 2003

katie couric: "Do you just have to pinch yourself?"

gary coleman: "Every day, Katie. I mean, it really is incredible."

katie couric: "Did you have any idea . . . any inkling of what they're calling the 'late Coleman surge'?"

gary coleman: "No idea at all, Katie. None. I didn't have much of a campaign budget, remember. So we had zero, really, for any kind of polling. The Field Poll showed us hovering in the low fives, high fours . . ."

katie couric: "Ahead of Angelyne and the Green party, right?"

gary coleman: "Yeah. Right. Comfortably ahead of the Green party, and within the margin of error with Angelyne, but then Zogby came out the night before the election and showed us in the low teens, and I remember getting those numbers and just thinking, you know, 'What choo talkin' 'bout, Zogby?' and just . . ."

katie couric: "But by the next day . . ."

gary coleman: "Yeah, the next day I'm on one of those little planes headed to Sacramento and . . ."

katie couric: "Were you nervous?"

gary coleman: "Freaked."

katie couric: "But other things were going on in your life at the time, right?"

gary coleman: "Right."

katie couric: "You have a new lady in your life, am I right?"

gary coleman: "Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's strange, because ever since my show went off the air, it's been, I don't know, like, impossible to meet girls. And now, I've got to say, it's really great to have such a terrific lady to lean on. And she's not just my girlfriend -- my first real girlfriend, actually. I mean, she's more than a lover. She's an adviser. A partner. A counselor. She's my everything."

katie couric: "And she's here with you today."

gary coleman: "Yes, she is."

katie couric: "Hi, Arianna."

arianna huffington: "Hello, Katie. It's wonderful to be here."

katie couric: "So . . . I've got to say, this is an unlikely romance."

arianna huffington: "You know, Katie, the truth is, it isn't, really. It's just that we've been conditioned to expect that people of the same height tend to end up together."

katie couric: "And when did you know that this was the guy for you?"

arianna huffington: "A few minutes after Fox News/Opinion Dynamics released their exit-poll results. I just thought to myself, 'Who's that hunk in the boy's blazer?'"

katie couric: "Wow. I imagine there have been a lot of compromises?"

gary coleman: "Yeah. Of course. Like in any relationship. I mean, when we go to parties thrown by Arianna's friends, I have to wear a sign that says 'I am not the parking valet.'"

arianna huffington: "And I was surprised to learn that the residuals from Diff'rent Strokes weren't all that lucrative. But you know, Katie, love really does conquer all. He's a wonderful man. A wonderful, dear, sexy little man."

katie couric: "Sounds like the things that every couple goes through. We wish you the best."