Michael Douglas Quotes
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Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
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Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.
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Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.
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If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.
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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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I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.
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Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!
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I'm questioning it. We're trying to get a lot of money for health and education and I'm wondering... You look at these gangs, and I look back at Prohibition. When we didn't allow alcohol, what did we have? We had gangs. We had big gangs. It's something that needs to be discussed a little more. It's an economic issue and a violence issue.
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I dont 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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Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.
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When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.
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My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.
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Everybody knows about Las Vegas. It's a state of mind. Some people want to come with their kids and have a great weekend. Some people want to shop. Some people want to find hookers. Some people want to eat. Some people just want to gamble. It's a potpourri of decadence.
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A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
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For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
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Since Catherine Zeta-Jones and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.
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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 don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end.
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Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.
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There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.
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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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Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.
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We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.