Kirk Douglas Quotes
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If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
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Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.
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I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
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When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character.
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Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.
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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.
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I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.
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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.
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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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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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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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Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
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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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The learning process continues until the day you die.
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Love has more depth as you get older.
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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!
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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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.
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Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
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I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.
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All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.
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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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Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.
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Compared to Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assisi was peanuts.