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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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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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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There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
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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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Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.
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Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.
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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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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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Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
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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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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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I never thought about the gayness. Liberace just looked like he was having so much fun. And that whole idea of talking directly to the audience, you just went along with him. He made you happy. And he's finally getting acknowledged for all the Elton John, Lady Gaga, Madonna theatrics now that people are looking at his old costumes.
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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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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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Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.
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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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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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A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
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In this whole digital age, where everything is so exposed, rather than trying to keep something private, you try to get out ahead of the curve and limit the amount of gossip.
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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.