


It was here, that he won his first bodybuilding contest, Mr. After finishing high school in 1965, Schwarzenegger enlisted himself in the Austrian military. It was in 1960 that he took his first step toward becoming a bodybuilder, when his soccer coach took him to the local gym and introduced him to the world of bodybuilding. Though he excelled in sports, academically, he was an average student. He grew up in a Catholic household with strict parents. On July 30, 1947, Arnold Schwarzenegger was born to a police chief and a homemaker, named Gustav and Aurelia, in a tiny village in Thal, Austria. In Terminator 2, Arnold only had 700 words of dialogue, equating to $21,429 per spoken word.

In movies, Arnold earned $2 million for "Commando", $3.5 million for "Predator", $11 million for "Total Recall", and $12 million for both "Kindergarten Cop" and "Terminator 2".
