3 Best Arnie quotes from the The Last Stand press junket

When you get the chance to come face to face with The Terminator, you can't pass that up lightly. So when The Running Man came to London to promote new film The Last Stand, I gladly made my way to see Commando in the flesh. And who can blame me? The man was in Kindergarten Cop, for crying out loud.

So, along with the film press elite, some film bloggers and one guy in a questionable pin-striped shirt, I arrived at the Savoy Hotel and huddled into the Abraham Lincoln Room (soon to be renamed the Daniel Day Lewis Conference Room B). There we awaited Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville, Jaimie Alexander and, most importantly, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

When they arrived - along with Empire journo and always-unflappable junket host Chris Hewitt - one thing became very clear: the junket organisers had vastly underestimated the length of table needed for four people, especially when one of those four people was the Austrian Oak.

But soon enough, the celeb chat started and Qs were being A-ed. Over the course of the next half hour, two things struck me: 1) Knoxville and Alexander must be bored as all hell during this European press tour as people only ever want to direct questions at Arnie, and 2) the man himself can't seem to get out of the habit of answering questions like a politician. Even the simplest of fun queries about his action career were met with drawn-out, diplomatic statements like he was trying to play down rumours about state taxes.

Still, he's Arnold Schwarzenegger so you have to listen, don't you? Well, you don't actually because here I have handily compiled the five best quotes from the man himself. All you have to do is read the following words in the inner faux-Arnie voice that we all have somewhere in our brains.

3. On who would win in a fight between all of his characters

2. Confirming all our fears about what’s coming soon

1. On which memorable line is his favourite

And then, on a note not unlike a performing monkey saving his greatest act until the end, the junket was over. Here’s to attending the (*shudder*) Triplets press conference in the next year or so.