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The foreign directors are always fumbling about in obscurity, and the critics are always writing about the juxtaposition of black and white and the existential dilemma and all that shit, to disguise the fact that they don't understand the first damn thing about it either.
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Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.
Kirk Douglas
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People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?
Kirk Douglas -
What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.
Kirk Douglas -
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
Kirk Douglas -
Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.
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Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.
Kirk Douglas -
It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good.
Kirk Douglas
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I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
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I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.
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The learning process continues until the day you die.
Kirk Douglas -
Love has more depth as you get older.
Kirk Douglas -
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
Kirk Douglas -
Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
Kirk Douglas
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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
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I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.
Kirk Douglas -
I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.
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When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!
Kirk Douglas -
I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think.
Kirk Douglas -
Compared to Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assisi was peanuts.
Kirk Douglas
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Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
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You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
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I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.
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I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
Kirk Douglas