Michael Douglas Quotes

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There’s nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

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The one thing that men and women have in common – they both like the company of men.

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Capitalism is part of our system, but it’s not for the faint of heart.

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I never really look at my movies.

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Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.

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There’s nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

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I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me.

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Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon.

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I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100.

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The one thing that men and women have in common – they both like the company of men.

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There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It’s not that you feel afraid; it’s more like you’re liberated by seeing them.

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My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and we’d come up and see the shows and go backstage afterwards and have dinner together. It was one of my first educations about stars and how they really are back stage.

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‘Five Easy Pieces,’ ‘Easy Rider’ – those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

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Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat.

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If your work isn’t exciting, doesn’t stir the emotions, where‘s the challenge? Where’s the progress if you always play it safe?

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When you’ve accomplished a certain amount in your career, you’re not so focused on your ambitions.

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In ‘Wall Street,’ Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

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The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons.

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Paul Rudd is ripped.

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It’s difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.

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The Cold War‘s end pushed disarmament down most leaders‘ agendas. It’s a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it is not so hands-on to many people. It’s not visceral. It’s not like a starving child.

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The quality of health care in Canada is excellent.

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Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it’s not in front of you like an actor‘s performance.

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I haven‘t played a lot of nice guys.

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I come from a tough stock.

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I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.

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Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning – these little pieces of innocence – to wake them and find they’re so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it.

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In ‘Wall Street,’ Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

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If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.

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My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it’s a silver spoon. It’s not.

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I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.

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The so-called ‘last golden age,’ in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.

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Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

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People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious.

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I guess there are some women who like older men, but it’s a smaller group.

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I don’t smile a lot in my pictures. I’m always so… grim.

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My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

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‘Wall Street’ was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film ‘Fatal Attraction‘ came right after it.

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Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I’m not saying it’s for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.

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I don’t know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?

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I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.

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I don’t know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?

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I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.

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My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn’t last very long.

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Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that’s closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that’s closest to you.

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My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

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When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

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During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

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I’ve always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

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Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything.

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Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that’s nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it’s ignored, it withers.

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There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.

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Every empire eventually falls.

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My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it’s a silver spoon. It’s not.

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Cancer didn’t bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

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My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn’t last very long.

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Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

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I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.

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Everything’s so repressive now – it’s the No generation. You can’t do anything, you can’t eat anything, you have to abstain.

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Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

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A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

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When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

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When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I’ll spray tan before I go.

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Retiring gives the impression that you’re relieved that your job is over.

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I’ve never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.

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If your work isn’t exciting, doesn’t stir the emotions, where‘s the challenge? Where’s the progress if you always play it safe?

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Of course it’s important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

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I don’t wish ill will on anybody.

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I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.

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My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.

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‘King of California‘ was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.

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Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.

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I’ve always liked Tina Turner.

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I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn’t come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

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